Japan officially discharged nuclear sewage, who will suffer first? When will it affect our country?

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One, IAEA released a report: in line with international safety standards

Recently, the Global Times launched a public opinion survey for China, South Korea, Japan, the Philippines, New Zealand and other 11 countries, in more than 11,000 respondents, nearly 90% of the respondents to the nuclear contaminated water discharged into the sea to express concern, fear and anger. More than 90 percent of the respondents supported their countries to take measures to intervene in the Japanese sea discharge.

Just on July 4, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) released a comprehensive assessment report on the disposal of contaminated water from Fukushima, concluding that Japan's program of discharging contaminated water into the sea is generally in line with international safety standards, and that the agency will supervise and monitor Japan's discharging activities for a long time.

However, at the press conference, IAEA Director General Grossi was intercepted by a South Korean reporter who asked him to respond to the allegation that "the IAEA accepted a 1 million euro bribe from the Japanese side to revise the final report". Grossi denied the allegation and called it "ridiculous" before leaving in a hurry.

As for the report released by the IAEA, our spokesman said the report did not fully reflect the views of all the experts who participated in the assessment work, and the relevant conclusions were not unanimously endorsed by all the experts. In this regard, we believe that the report, which was issued in such a hasty manner, cannot become a "talisman" and "pass" for the Japanese side to drain the sea.

2. What will be the impact of Japan's formal discharge of nuclear sewage into the sea?

In mid-June, South Korea released information related to the safety testing of Japanese nuclear sewage discharged into the sea, and in terms of South Korean standards, the detection of strontium, a radioactive substance in Fukushima's nuclear sewage, exceeded the standard by 21,650,000 times; and even according to Japan's standards, the detection exceeded the standard by nearly 15,000 times.

What is the global impact of such a huge discharge?

Calculations from the German Institute for Marine Science show that radioactive material will spread to most of the Pacific Ocean within 57 days from the date of discharge of Fukushima nuclear wastewater, and that the U.S. and Canada will be affected by nuclear contamination in three years, and that it will spread to the world's oceans in 10 years, and that the contamination of the oceans will be irreversible.

For the discharge of nuclear wastewater, there is nothing more closely linked to the people's daily life than their diets, and many people are worried or even panicked that the nuclear wastewater will contaminate seafood and cause serious harm to their bodies after consumption.

It is true that nuclear wastewater entering the sea will directly affect the growth and reproduction of fish, shellfish and other marine life. The nuclear wastewater also contains the radioactive isotope of carbon, carbon-14, which is easily absorbed by marine life and detected in fish up to 50,000 times the normal concentration.

If too much seafood containing radioactive substances is consumed, radionuclides are deposited in the body, which can affect body organs or surrounding tissues and may produce biochemical toxicity.

In addition, nuclear radiation may trigger genetic mutations. If the genetic mutation happens to occur in some important locations, it may lead to a reduction in the ability to repair these genes, possibly triggering the accumulation of DNA errors in the cells and increasing the risk of cancer.

So is seafood completely off limits?

It is recommended that you can try to choose domestic seafood, China is a relatively high rate of self-sufficiency in aquatic products, in recent years, imports of aquatic products from Japan accounted for a very small proportion of total imports, and imports of aquatic products also have strict quality control.

As long as the seafood purchased through regular channels, basically meet the national testing standards, can be safely eaten.

Three, China's nuclear power plants tritium emissions are 6.5 times that of Japan's nuclear effluent?

With the serious condemnation of Japan's nuclear wastewater discharge by various countries, Japan began to backtrack, claiming that the wastewater produced by China's nuclear power plants is more hazardous, with the radiation level being 6.5 times that of Japan's Fukushima nuclear wastewater. In reality, this is utter nonsense.

First of all, it should be clear that, in general, the tritium-containing wastewater discharged during the normal operation of a nuclear power plant is not in direct contact with radioactive substances, and its pollution intensity is very low. In contrast, nuclear wastewater from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant comes into contact with water, and the radioactivity is thousands of times higher than under normal conditions, making it very troublesome to handle.

Tritium, a radioactive isotope of hydrogen, is radioactive and undergoes beta decay, releasing electrons into helium-3 with a half-life of 12.43 years. Tritium combines with oxygen to turn into heavy water, and the monthly magazine Scientific American notes that ingesting tritium increases the risk of cancer.

And for the Japanese side of the false allegations, China's Ministry of Ecology and Environment (National Nuclear Security Administration), the relevant person in charge of the response: China's nuclear power plant emissions of wastewater, mainly from the normal operation of the process drainage, ground drainage, etc., containing a small amount of fissionable nuclides, strict compliance with international standards, the use of the best practicable technology to deal with the strict monitoring of compliance with the standards of the organized discharge, the emission is far below the The emissions are far below the prescribed control values.

At present, our country attaches great importance to the issue of Japan's Fukushima nuclear contaminated water discharged into the sea, and has already made the deployment, if abnormalities are detected will be timely early warning, and effectively safeguard our national interests and people's health.

Extension - how long will it take for the human body to die from drinking a cup of nuclear sewage discharged from Japan every day?

The discharge of nuclear wastewater from Japan could affect generations of people. So if a healthy adult drinks a cup of nuclear wastewater every day, how long will it take to cause serious consequences of death?

Day 1: Drinking a glass of nuclear wastewater means that the "radioactive killers" represented by cesium, iodine and strontium begin to invade our bodies, and the "killers" will wreak havoc in the body with their radioactive weapons. Under the damage of radioactive substances, DNA will suffer serious damage or even break and die.

Day 10: the more nuclear wastewater drink more, the body radiation may accumulate to 150mSv, DNA in the continuous damage repair process began to collapse, protein production errors, the body's various systems also suffered a direct impact on the blood system, such as hematopoietic stem cells in the blood system casualties, white blood cells, platelets, as well as the lack of growth of red blood cells.

Day 60: Radiation levels in the body may have reached 1,500 mSv, with most of the DNA killed by the beta rays of the "killers," and more and more poor-quality proteins being transported throughout the body, leading to increased cellular damage. Mucosal cells die in large numbers, and can not be newborn, resulting in continuous damage to the mucosa of the gastrointestinal tract, causing the human body to appear gastrointestinal radiation syndrome, such as infection, bleeding, intestinal obstruction, gastric dysfunction, and so on.

Day 100: The amount of radiation in the body may have reached 3,000mSv, and the lungs may produce inflammation, alveolar atrophy and decline in lung function; the coagulation system and immune system are completely paralyzed.

Day 120: The radiation level in the body may have reached 4,500mSv, and there are not enough healthy newborn cells, and all organs and tissues in the body have become "ruins". Cancer cells caused by faulty genetic mutations begin to multiply wildly and attack the immune system.......

After hundreds of days of intense battle, the human body is completely occupied by radioactive killers, and there is no way back. Need to be reminded that the human body is complex, different nuclear contaminated water radioactive material concentration may be different, the harm may be greater or lesser, but are absolutely can not be ignored.