Japanese Blog - Fukushima Disaster

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Fukushima disaster

Fukushima disaster-2011

The tragic Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant accident in Japan has provoked global debate about the rationality of nuclear power.

日本福岛第一核电站事故的惨剧引发了全球对于核电使用合理性的讨论。

Political Environment

政治环境

The 2011 earthquake was the most powerful ever recorded in Japan

The arising controversies from the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power Plant and subsequent handling measures can be attributed to structural problems in Japan's postwar system. Japan's power elite is steeped in a political and cultural tradition. On the government's side, politicians and bureaucrats have joined forces with Tokyo Electric Power Company, Japan's biggest utility, to build dozens of nuclear power plants, driven by political considerations such as moving away from energy dependence. The Japanese government wasn't able to mediate the economy because of the huge amount of money it had invested. Dumping the sewage into the sea is obviously the best option for the Japanese government to save money.

福岛第一核电站事故所引起的争议以及随后的处理措施可以被归结为日本战后的结构性问题：日本的权力精英们沉浸于传统的政治和文化中。政府方面，政治家和官僚与日本最大的公用事业公司——东京电力联合公司联合起来，在考虑到摆脱能源依赖等政治考虑的推动下建造了几十座核电站。由于大量资金投入，日本政府无法调解经济状况，将核污水倾倒入海显然是日本政府省钱的最佳选择。

Local Residence Effect

当地居民影响

Some Japanese scholars have pointed out that the ocean around Fukushima is not only a part of the Pacific Ocean and the global ocean but also a fishing ground for local fishermen. The discharge of nuclear sewage into the ocean will affect fish migration, pelagic fisheries, human health, and ecological security. Therefore, thus there will be no more fresh fish for trading, we can expect an uplift of the unemployment rate in Fukushima and boycotts/protests in the following years. 

Moreover, it will also lead to a decrease in exporting dry aquatic products and frozen aquatic products, such as sardines and seaweed and will also strike the sushi culture. Many Japanese restaurants abroad choose to import sea products from Japan to pursue a traditional and local taste of Japanese food.  However, if the sea is polluted by nuclear sewage, there is a high chance that they will stop importing from Japan and start importing more from other coastal countries, due to the low quality of products that Japan will own. This issue is by no means only a domestic issue in Japan, but an international issue involving global marine ecology and environmental security.

有日本学者指出，福岛附近海域不仅是太平洋和全球海洋的一部分，也是当地渔民的渔场。核污水排入海洋将影响鱼类洄游、远洋渔业、人类健康和生态安全。因此，将没有更多的新鲜鱼进行贸易，我们可以预期福岛的失业率将上升，并在接下来的几年抵制/抗议活动。

另外，沙丁鱼、海带等干水产品和冷冻水产品的出口也将减少，寿司文化也将受到打击。许多海外的日本餐厅选择从日本进口海产品，以追求传统和当地的日本食物口味。但是，如果海洋被核污水污染，由于日本拥有的产品质量较低，他们很有可能停止从日本进口，而从其他沿海国家进口更多的产品。这不仅仅是日本国内的问题，而是涉及全球海洋生态和环境安全的国际问题。

Harm to Human Beings

对人类的危害

The Pacific Ocean is the largest ocean among the five oceans, and Japan's discharge of nuclear wastewater into the Pacific Ocean poses three major hazards to mankind. 

First of all, in terms of food, when nuclear wastewater is released into the sea, marine fish will be the first to be affected, then marine organisms can not only absorb and accumulate radioactive substances from the environment through metabolism, and hence becoming carriers and transmitters of radioactive substances, but also cause human body to be influenced by a variety of radioactive isotopes in seawater through enrichment effect. These harmful substances will gradually accumulate in the human body and cause diseases like chronic radiation sickness, damage to blood organs, endocrine system and nervous system, and inducing cancer and genetic mutation.

太平洋是五大洋中最大的海洋，日本向太平洋排放核废水对人类造成了三大危害。

首先，在食物方面，当核废水释放到海洋中时，海洋鱼类将首先受到影响，那么海洋生物不仅可以通过新陈代谢从环境中吸收和积累放射性物质，从而成为放射性物质的载体和传播者，还可以通过浓缩效应导致人体受到海水中各种放射性同位素的影响。这些有害物质将逐渐积累在人体中，并导致慢性辐射病、对血液器官、内分泌系统和神经系统的损害以及诱导癌症和基因突变等疾病。

Japan's discharge of nuclear sewage is not only harmful to the global environment, but also affects the global economy. The first unlucky group to discharge nuclear sewage into the sea is the Japanese people, especially those who make a living by fishing. 


Because when the nuclear sewage is discharged, the most seriously polluted is the Japanese waters, radioactive substances will stay in the fish body, human consumption of these seafood will cause damage to the human body. 



日本排放核污水不仅对全球环境造成危害，而且还影响到全球经济。将核污水排入大海的第一个倒霉的群体是日本人民，尤其是以捕鱼为生的人。

因为当核污水被排放后，受污染最严重的是日本海域，放射性物质会保留在鱼体内，人类食用这些海产品，会对人体造成伤害。

那么，日本对海产品的需求就会大大减少。同时，渔民们为了自己的人身安全，也不会经常下海，导致供应量减少。



Then, the demand for Sea of Japan products will be greatly reduced. At the same time, the fishermen will not frequently go into the sea for their own physical safety, resulting in the reduction of supply. 

Not only in Japan, but also the most distinctive Japanese product is seafood. 

Once in this event, the foreign demand for the Sea of Japan products will also decline, and the export of Japanese goods will decrease, leading to the imbalance of the balance of payments, and the number of imports is greater than the number of export products, which may lead to a trade deficit

不仅是在日本，但日本最有特色的也是海产品。
一旦遇到这种情况，国外对日本海产品的需求也会下降，日本商品出口也会减少，导致国际不平衡收支，进口产品数量大于出口产品数量，会导致贸易逆差。

Environmental Effect

环境影响

After Japan discharged nuclear wastewater into the ocean, due to the fluidity of seawater, nuclear wastewater will affect the entire Asia-Pacific region. This includes the United States, China, Russia, and even the entire Southeast Asia. It may cause an ecological and environmental disaster. 

When seawater is polluted, the crisis of freshwater resources will further increase, and according to the effect of ocean currents, nuclear sewage will gradually affect the waters around neighboring countries. 

日本将核废水排入海洋后，由于海水的流动性，核废水将影响整个亚太地区。这包括美国、中国、俄罗斯，甚至整个东南亚，这可能造成生态环境灾难。

当海水被污染时，淡水资源的危机将进一步加剧，而根据洋流的影响，核污水将逐渐影响到周边国家的海域。

The most important thing is that nuclear radiation can kill cells and have a mutagenic effect: cell carcinogenesis or genetic mutations. This results in biological malformations. 

The second is the enrichment effect of the food chain, non-degradable harmful substances will eventually be enriched to the top of the food chain. These harmful substances are difficult to be degraded, and finally may enter the human body, triggering genetic mutations and various diseases in the body. Thus, affecting human beings themselves. 

最重要的是，核辐射可以杀死细胞并具有致突变作用：细胞致癌或基因突变。这会导致生物畸形。

二是食物链的富集效应，不可降解的有害物质最终会富集到食物链的顶端。这些有害物质难以降解，最终可能进入人体，引发基因突变和体内各种疾病。因此，影响人类自己的精灵。

Experts have said that at present, human beings still lack the technology to effectively dispose of artificial radioactive pollutants entering the ocean, and can only reduce the concentration of pollution through the attenuation of radioactive materials themselves and the dilution and diffusion of marine water bodies. As a result, when the ocean water quality is severely polluted, fish may eat harmful substances in nuclear wastewater, which accumulate in the fish's body. If humans consume these seafood products, it will have a great negative impact on health.

专家表示，目前人类还缺乏有效处置进入海洋的人工放射性污染物的技术，只能通过放射性物质自身的衰减和海洋水体的稀释扩散来降低污染浓度。因此，当海洋水质受到严重污染时，鱼可能会吃掉核废水中的有害物质，这些物质会在鱼体内积聚。如果人类食用这些海鲜产品，将对健康产生很大的负面影响。

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