Hong Kong’s ruler conveyed on Tuesday he passionately is against Japan’s release into the sea of treated water from the ruined Fukushima nuclear plant and the city would “instantly activate” import controls on Japanese seafood. Japan on Thursday will start releasing exceeding than a million tonnes of water from the plant north of Tokyo, saying it is secure to perform it.
The plant was ruined in a 2011 tsunami and the water has mostly been utilized to cool damaged reactors. Though agreed by the UN nuclear watchdog, the plan to dump the water has seen criticism at home and abroad, involving China, because of tensions related to food security. Hong Kong Chief Executive John Lee said the release was “not a responsible action to take” and posed “impossible perils to food safety and the extremely harmful pollution and ruining of the marine environment”.
Hong Kong’s government declared in July that the restriction would be enforced to imported aquatic things from the Japanese areas of Tokyo, Fukushima, Chiba, Tochigi, Ibaraki, Gunma, Miyagi, Niigata, Nagano and Saitama. It shelters live, chilled, refrigerated, and scorched aquatic products, which also involves sea salt and seaweed.