Japan’s Prime Minister ate fish caught off Fukushima’s coast on Wednesday to alleviate fears after the controversial release of water from the disabled Ōkuma nuclear power station.
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and three Cabinet ministers enjoyed sashimi fished off the coast of Fukushima at a lunch meeting on Wednesday, in an apparent effort to dispel safety concerns following the release of treated radioactive wastewater from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant.
According to Economy and Industry Minister Yasutoshi Nishimura, who was at the lunch meeting, Kishida and the three lawmakers sat down to a spread of flounder, octopus and seabass as well as boiled pork, fruits and various vegetables in the leader’s office.
“We eat in support of the Sanriku Joban region. All seafood items from Sanriku Joban are full of appeal,” Kishida told reporters who were invited to film the meal.
It amazes me that this story has continued to ruin in the media, it’s simply fear mongering nonsense to suggest that the extremely diluted minor smidge of radiation that might be present in a water sample collected after this controlled release could in any way be dangerous.
You’re in more danger from radiation flying on a plane, and the media isn’t constantly screaming about how we should never ever get on a plane.
Honestly, it just depresses me. Anyone who’s looked at the facts for 30 seconds knows there’s zero story here, and yet the media continue to assume we’re uneducated idiots who can be easily manipulated into being scared of the big bad radiation.
That’s what happens when you keep the monsters unknown. Instead of actually telling people what it actually is, you just say “this very VERY bad 100% dangerous” and the people will get paranoid about it
FUD about nuclear has been standard in the media for decades
Spread fear, get clicks. “If it bleeds, it leads” has been an adage in journalism for decades.