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Fukushima wastewater released into the ocean, China bans all Japanese seafood (www.reuters.com)

submitted 1 year ago by NightOwl@lemm.ee to c/worldnews@lemmy.ml

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Japan exported about $600 million worth of aquatic products to China in 2022, making it the biggest market for Japanese exports, with Hong Kong second. Sales to China and Hong Kong accounted for 42% of all Japanese aquatic exports in 2022, according to government data.

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[-] culprit@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 year ago

anyone know a better radioactivity monitoring site than this one?

https://map.safecast.org/?y=37.527&x=140.969&z=10&l=0&m=2

Fukushima sure is lit up like a Christmas tree on this one.

[-] GigglyBobble@kbin.social 29 points 1 year ago

"Lit up like a Christmas tree" - yeah, at 4 µSv per hour. So you'd have to swim there for just about 4000 hours to get the equivalent of a full body CT scan.

[-] culprit@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago

I guess camping at Chernobyl is no big deal now as well.

https://map.safecast.org/?y=51.384&x=30.078&z=12&l=0&m=2

[-] coherent_rambling@lemmy.world 31 points 1 year ago

Yes, that's literally true (or was before the Russian army visited). The ambient radiation in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, which is all you'd see on a map, is only slightly elevated. The main risk there is of disturbing the ground or abandoned debris and exposing much more dangerous material buried just below the surface.