Is banning Japanese seafood sensible? Or a politcally judged overreaction? We discuss the ongoing situation this week on the Podcast. Be sure to subscribe for new episodes every Monday and Thursday guys! It's been an amazing month featuring the Podcast on TH-cam for the first time and we want to keep it going!
Problem is, Japan sadly have a bad history of water pollution and fishs, there are literally diseases that originated in Japan because of such issues. Example: Minamata.
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@@hikarisama306 Come on. That' was then, this is now. Make no mistake, this sudden banning and demonizing of Japanese fishery products is just a jingoistic exercise by China, who has worse pollution than Japan ever has, as China ramps up its antagonism with its neighbours.
The Chinese ban on Japanese fish imports is 100% political. Japan plans to release water with a total of below 22 TBq per year (TBq is the unit used here to measure radioactivity). Taiwan has a nuclear power plant that releases water at a total of 35 TBq per year under normal operating conditions. South Korea has two nuclear power plants that release 49 TBq per year (more than double what Japan plans to release) at one location and 71 TBq (over 3 times as much) at the other. China has 4 nuclear power plants that release water ranging from 90 TBq at the lowest-releasing location (4 times what Japan plans to release) to 218 TBq per year (almost 10 times the amount Japan plans to release) at the highest.
Also, tritium is far less dangerous than any of the other contaminants. The others are much more dangerous, but (relatively) easy to remove from water. Tritium is hard to remove from water because it is an isotope of hydrogen with one extra neutron, so it mixes into water like normal hydrogen. Other contaminants are so much more dangerous for the same reason mercury is dangerous: they get eaten in small amounts by smaller creatures, which are in turn eaten by bigger creatures, that are then eaten by bigger creatures, etc, until the fish we humans catch have all of that mercury or radioactive material that all the smaller creatures ate piled up in one place. Tritium is part of the water, so it leaves the body as easily as water does and for that reason it does not build up the same way that mercury does or the other radioactive materials would have.
Yeah, this is just typical Chinese posturing and trying to stand on a higher morale ground that they haven't even built yet. At this point I think the Chinese - Korean - Japanese relations will never, ever be properly resolved and there's always going to be some sort of political agenda and/or hate on all sides.
The last time I met a celebrity, i was in a queue for some 2 hours plus, and when I met him (and his partner), it was truly surreal. And it was so worth it. It was like a magic. Those people, were Chris and Sharla.
I bought the book and then started binge watching your channel, don’t know how I hadn’t come across you! Absolutely loving your work, you are incredibly talented! Also, Pete’s South African accent is brilliant!
I’m kinda sad that the audio engineer made you repronounce things instead of just letting you talk how you normally talk. You’re the author after all. The vast majority of us like the way you talk and the voices you do.
I agree it's ridiculous. We live in a global economy with 100's of millions of people moving between countries all of the time. I myself am a dual citizen (American and British) living in yet another country. I think if you're embracing new experiences in your life journey and meeting and befriending people of different cultures - of course your language is going to change to represent your own experiences and worldview. If Chris, or I or any expat I know were to speak exactly the way they did from their birth country, I would think that is jingoistic and quite disturbing. I think it's great that way Chris speaks. Moreover it's his life. His story. He should be allowed to use his own voice.
Especially for a TH-camr and podcaster! I think if the author would be a full-time author, journalist or any kind of person where you normally don't hear them speak, than it might make sense, but for someone how has answered the question "Are you TH-camr?" with "yes", it doesn't because his way to talk is like his signature and also a legit selling point for the audio book!
@@Blex_040 yeah, I was waiting to buy the audiobook, but I’m not sure I want to now if it’s not really gonna sound like Chris’ natural way of speaking. I’ll probably just buy a hard copy of the book to read instead. Pretty disappointing.
Here Chris and Pete are talking about meeting real celebrities and I’m like when I go to Japan it would be cool meeting TH-camrs. Which I’ve have, Chris, Connor and American Pete in Tokyo and Nick Petras in Sendai. That made the trip memorable.
I live in hope I'll randomly run into the trash taste boys, nick and barry chopsticks himself but they always seem to be out of the country when Im in Jp for vacation xD Well theres always next trip!
Many of Japan’s neighbours release more Tritium water than Fukushima including China, Korea, and Taiwan. In China one reactor produces nearly 10 times the concentration of tritium water/year. The whole situation is not ideal dumping contaminated water. However the political theatrics and hypocrisy is ridiculous from Japan’s neighbours.
Also, while he's been wise in avoiding being used for propaganda, he's just playing right into it by not having an informed opinion and spreading FUD when he could refrain from broaching the subject.
China is hypocritical, this is one thing that's far more consistent than any (often ridiculous) western slander of the week. China would scream polluted fish yet their local fishery is both polluted and endangered (that's why their ships always caught poaching all over Southeast Asia).
absolutely! normally i never notice the number of cuts in a video, and i am watching this _during a sunny day in sevilla_... so the fact i noticed means it's pretty extreme 😂😂❤❤
The slow release of water is perfectly safe. The levels of tritium released per year are Miniscule, several orders of magnitude less than are already in the water in the first place. Yes, the ocean has tritium in it. Also tritium has a halflife of 12 years. So that amount will consistently drop.
Hey Chris and Pete, thanks for talking about Fukushima. About the audio recording, it would have been great if they let you do your take on the voices.
I NEVER understod that. I want to be a pirate! Why want you to kill an r*pe people??? What????? You life in japan!!! One Piece is the most know manga/anime of all time. HOW DID SHE NOT UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU ARE MEANING!!!!?? That bothered me for years now… 😅😅😅
i actually think chris should collab with kyle on the fukushima stuff. kyle when visiting met with a lot of barriers culturally with the whole ''we are sorry for what happened, everything fine we have it under control'' stuff, over them actually just laying out facts and being honest. I not only think it would be a great video series,but also very informative to have videos with both someone who knows nuclear science that can ask about japanese culture and why they may do things certain ways, and someone who knows japanese culture that can ask questions on nuclear stuff. so while chris is up on japanese stuff, and kyle is up on nuclear stuff, they can both ask each other things that regular people who dont know those things, will likely be wanting to know, and i think it would be very informative. something that in this situation is needed i think. and i can't think of two better people to do it than Kyle Hill and Chris Broad
I think anyone with a large channel such as Chris should definitely make content with actually informed people like Kyle Hill. I didn't really like how the topic was covered in the 9 minutes they spent on it on this episode, and hearing non-experts/uninformed/underinformed people might even be more problematic than if they hadn't talked about it at all. Would definitely love some collaborations between science communicators that covered the topic and large content creators from Japan.
I'm listening to the audiobook at the moment and it sounds great, well done on the recording. Would have bought the book, but I'm visually impaired, so I depend on audiobooks. Found out about Abroad in Japan a few weeks ago, as a friend is on holiday in Japan now.
The problem is never the Tritium content. At max, Fukushima waste water discharge only gives it 700 TBq of radioactive Tritium. French, Canadian, did it much bigger. It is not a really scary radioactive material, you can safely swim in it as their weak ionising radiation can't penetrate your skin, but of course you can't ingest it. Just like the fish found with Cesium-137, the issue is with TEPCO's handling of water release. There are so many waste water tanks, they ran out of space. They are treating the water with ALPS method to remove those radioactive Strontium, Cesium, and whatnots... dangerous corium debris washed away by the cooling water. Now, how are they going to make sure that they won't accidentally dump the wrong water tank (the untreated, instead of the treated ones)? On the other hand, they really have to dump it no matter what, it is much safer to dump when they still can manage it. Running out of space, and the threat of impending ever savage typhoons, or another earthquake rupturing the tanks and causes leak - that is a much worse outcome. It is easily trust issue, nothing about "science" or people who just learned about Tritium and be in certain geopolitical camp pretends to understand it. The "yellow dust" earlier in 2023 Summer coming from Northern China is easily sand storm from Gobi dessert. Likewise, if you want to comeback at China, just point at water pollution in Chinese river like the ones in Chongqing is indeed quite concerning too. Although they are really closing down factories for that. The blanket ban on Japanese seafood is on the billions, quite a massive dent on Japanese GDP as a whole, which is why it is a big issue for Japan. For us, it represents a supply China needs to shift somewhere. Here in Southeast Asia, we are concerned that our ZEE territorial waters will be overfished as a consequence.
The fish ban has nothing to do with radioactivity, it is just a punishment tactic. The same way China found "reasons" to ban Australian imports because they kept mentioning the Uyghur people.
I don't understand why they need to dump the waste water. Exactly why are they running out of space? Who and what is continually producing more contaminated waste water? Why are they not simply recycling the old waste water to use for whatever process it is that they need?
The people complaining or afraid of the tritium water being released simply don't understand the science behind the process or the premise of dilution.
Yeah this has been frustrating me endlessly and I'm a little disappointed that even Pete and Chris have bought into the concerns so heavily. All the experts say the levels of radioactivity are lower than normal everyday exposure. I'd eat fish caught in that area. Not concerned at all.
CCP is just trying to make a scientific problem political. They never show any data on why banning Japanese fish imports is necessary. They expressed that treated water might contain radioactive substances other than tritium while refusing to join IAEA to monitor water. If CCP finds out this treated water propaganda hurts the Chinese seafood market hard years later, they will say something totally opposite then (even if treated water is bad for heath).
@@ausreir what other concerns? The ocean water is already more toxic to drink than that waste water and it's being diluted further by being put in the ocean.
It's pretty jarring. My guess is they have some sort of auto camera switch based on audio levels to jump back and forth without the need for a lot of editing... but visually? it's pretty bad. I just minimized the window so I couldn't see it :)
Kyle Hill covered fukushima recently. He's a scientist in the field and had gone all over the world to chernobyl, fukishima, and hiroshima. He very recently got a tour of the fukushima plant. He had issues with the presentation from those in charge, but the science is sound and isnt anything to be concerned with when it comes to the levels they are releasing the water at.
I’ve met Thomas Brodie Sangster on HMS Belfast.. It was an interesting experience, I wasn’t a big fan but my partner was. She was starstruck so I went to him to ask for a photo. There wasn’t anyone around so it was easy, he was a very friendly and chill guy
China itself releases a multifold every year of this kind of water. At least with Japan you know they really did the best they could in terms of treatment of the water, they followed protocol and there was international oversight. China just likes to keep war time animosity alive for domestic purposes… The Chine economy is toast and Xinnie the Pooh is driving the country into the ground.
To consume enough of the water they're releasing to be any real risk of radiation-induced health effects you'd drown before you'd get irradiated. The tritium also has a relatively short half life and so won't persist long in the environment.
Hmm...you do know that the issue isn't about drinking the seawater, right...? The issue is that fish gradually collect the radioactive elements in their flesh, other bigger fish eat tons of the smaller fish and over time this results in people eating some fish that may well be dangerously radioactive. The same problem is happening with mercury deposits and is well documented.
@@DM-kv9kj Tritiated water (what they're releasing) doesn't bioaccumulate in the same way that long half-life radioisotopes do. It's weakly radioactive and chemically it's water, so it passes into, and is later excreted by the body (fish, human or otherwise) - biological half life is around 7 to 14 days. So long as it's diluted sufficiently upon release (which it is being), it poses negligible to no health risk to humans or animals. Mercury is non-radioactive, but is a lipophilic toxic heavy metal, which if in its bioavailable organic form is absorbed by the body and deposited and retained for many years in fatty tissues such as the myelin surrounding nerve cells, especially in the brain. This means that not only does it bioaccumulate, but it also does serious chronic harm to nerve cells once absorbed; this is why it causes brain damage.
@@jimbobur if the half life is 7 to 14 days, why in the world are they even diluting it? Just keep it for another year, and the radioactivity would go down 15 trillion times. Keep it another year, it is down 20 sextillion times.
@@danielch6662 if you read my previous comment carefully, you'll notice I said "biological half life" i.e. how long it takes for the concentration in the body to drop by half as it's excreted.
I'm looking forward to reading the book and listening too the audio version as well. Been watching Ken Watanabe since I was a kid and recently rewatched "Dokuganryu Masamune". It was epic!
_is fukushimas plan to release radioactive water safe?_ the TLDR is YES. the pacific ocean contains around 8000 grams of tridium naturally. the total amount of tridium held in all of Fukushimas water tanks is less than 3......not 3000 grams...just 3 grams
It is reassuring that Chris remains utterly British with his pronunciation of "TAP-ass". Listening to Chris and Pete do "American" is really...special. Australian: 8/10. Oh NAUR!
As a Chinese adjacent (I would never call myself Chinese) who has been following the news on the Chinese speaking side of the internet, I can safely say it's largely the long-standing racism between China and Japan, health has very little to do in the attitude Chinese people exhibit against Japanese products.
I've managed to meet a TH-cam guy I follow. Ian McCollum of Forgotten Weapons. He was doing a meet at a gun show in Vegas. It was pretty cool to see him in person and talk to him.
Are you perhaps using AutoPod to automatically edit these podcast videos? Because the very fast-paced jumps between Chris and Pete sometimes really throw me off. Otherwise, great episode as usual.
Ive always been nervous meeting people. You rehearse what you’d like to say and the nothing comes out lol. The last two were meet and greets too. Yourself and Sharla were great, saving me by asking about my jacket and music taste. Ant middleton did the same thing a couple years back when i had a big curly handlebar tache. In guessing its a good trick to break the ice 😅
Had a similar experience with Dara O'Briain in a hotel about a month ago. As I was leaving the breakfast buffet I almost walked into a man. So I looked up. And up. And up (he's so tall). Cue deer in headlights moment before we navigated around each other and I went back to my table, clutching my fruit and yoghurt. I don't think he even noticed a 5ft 6, 50kg girl almost bounce off him.
Will you be back in Tokyo end of September, start of October? My husband and I will be taking our long awaited honeymoon (married at start of COVID), and will be in the area during that time. We would love the chance to meet you and Sharla! I'm hoping to get pictures and autographs from most of my favorite Japan youtubers 🤞I'm also going to have your book on me the whole time incase I do see you and can get it signed 🙂
Well, Pete Donaldson is the co-host of the podcast. So, unless he is on holiday or cannot do it for some reason, you will have him for the foreseeable xD.
@@ukmaxi bet you haven't listened to the last few podcasts where they were talking about Pete Donaldson's trip to Japan that was upcoming (he's in japan right now)
Now that it's easier to comment rather than writing in to the fax machine... can you mix your audio to be louder? I have to double the volume of the podcast (and these videos) vs any other podcast to have it sound the same loudness.
IMO it's wrong that the producers tried to change how Chris said things. It's HIS damn book! The whole point of the author reading is that you get their unique character. Unless he said something 100% undeniably wrong, just completely mashed the word beyond belief, then they should just leave it rather than trying to change his particular dialect.
Considering some of the wild-ass pronunciations I've encountered in my audiobook adventures thus far, I suppose it's nice to hear you've got an engineer who cares, but real talk Chris I've not ever heard "communal" pronounced that way even once in my life.
you said approved by UN nuclear watchdog isn't correct.... there's huge disclaimer on their report it's up to Japan's discretion to release the water and IAEA not responsible for anything happens...
I have one of those words that catches me out...Holiday....I think it's the OL part. Anyone else have a word that's usually fine when used by self, but in context it's just hard to say or comes out weird??
Can y’all change your editing so it doesn’t switch between the two of you so quickly? I get you want to focus on who’s talking, but there’s points where it switches between the two of you 6 times in 3 seconds. Especially when you start talking over each other. Maybe do side by side at those points?
China wouldn't be running polution generating factories unless there is a huge Western consumer demand for cheap goods from countries like Japan and USA. Also Japan is the least EV adoption among advanced economies. In fact companies like Toyota are actively lobbying against EV adoption in the US, it's trying to preserve its polution generating internal combustion engine business as long as possible, whereas China is leading the world in EV production and battery design.
Go watch Kyle Hill's video about Fukushima and the nuclear treated water release. Seems he DID take Tepco up on their offer of a tour in the reactor, and whilst he does substantiate their claims that the treated water IS safe (as much as he could test himself which frankly wasn't much) he did say that visiting the reactor, in the bus outside the building his giger counter was going nuts, reading up to 200 msv/hr, which he says is the hottest environment he's ever been in, and he said the fact they paraded everyone around outside the bus and even had a photo shoot and Q+A was frankly a dangerous thing to do. He says even when he visited Chernobyl and went INSIDE the new safe confinement building, it still wasn't as bad as outside Fukushima's reactors.
I've been on the tour there multiple times as I work as an interpreter. They require you to wear counters that measure how much radiation you are exposed to and only let you stay outside the bus for 5-10 minutes. The amount of accumulated radiation exposure is less than you would get on an international flight or from an x-ray. It is very strictly regulated and completely safe.
Tritium has a half-life of 12 years, it's not exactly a problem for future generations. We couldn't significantly increase the whole ocean's concentration if we tried, it doesn't last long enough.
I really don't think people taking their "expert" informations on nuclear reactors from a company that found suitable to put Mark 1 G.E reactors with no release of moderator rods through gravity , but instead with rods mounted below ( through holes ! ) the containment vessel activated by electric motors the power supply of which resides in floodable diesel generators , on a coastal area prone to tsunamis , is a good idea ...... They for sure know how to make a profit , but I don't think they care really much about safety ....... I think taking "expert " information from Jvloggers is probably even worse
lol citing Rom?! a politician from Chicago?- he was in office during the time they knew lead pipes delivered the water supply in that corrupt nightmare of a city. Now there is lead contamination in that city's water that's not being reported on. I took a trip to visit my friend last November there and I had to throw away my hairbrush and toothbrush from that trip, because after rinsing it in that faucet water and later treating it with isoproyl alcohol and later hydrogen peroxide solution, they still smelled off.
Just as Japan is a "sovereign" state free to decide what to do with their contaminated water, China is free to react however they want as well. The only "truth" lies in science, and I do not think we have had a rigorous, scientific examination but what I think does not matter as I'm a nobody with not an ounce of influence. Until we have that discussion, I'm laying off ALL seafood.
Is banning Japanese seafood sensible? Or a politcally judged overreaction? We discuss the ongoing situation this week on the Podcast. Be sure to subscribe for new episodes every Monday and Thursday guys! It's been an amazing month featuring the Podcast on TH-cam for the first time and we want to keep it going!
Maybe if you got Radioactive Drew over there for a confab, it would be some amazing content for both of you!
Problem is, Japan sadly have a bad history of water pollution and fishs, there are literally diseases that originated in Japan because of such issues.
Example: Minamata.
"Ranch Seco", Sacramento's "Former" Nuclear Power Plant still is holding onto all of its' Irradiated Cooling Water. I believe !.....Glad BOTH Local Republican Farmer's from Galt, CA & Lefty Environmentalists agreed to work together to keep such closed down !....Oh and TEPCO like P, G, & E Co.. Here in California ARE BOTH MASSIVE VILLAINS ! Deserving NO RESPECT OR POLITENESS, EVER !
@@hikarisama306 Come on. That' was then, this is now. Make no mistake, this sudden banning and demonizing of Japanese fishery products is just a jingoistic exercise by China, who has worse pollution than Japan ever has, as China ramps up its antagonism with its neighbours.
Chinese power-plants are releasing more radioactive water out in their waters, so they have nothing to complain about
The Chinese ban on Japanese fish imports is 100% political. Japan plans to release water with a total of below 22 TBq per year (TBq is the unit used here to measure radioactivity). Taiwan has a nuclear power plant that releases water at a total of 35 TBq per year under normal operating conditions. South Korea has two nuclear power plants that release 49 TBq per year (more than double what Japan plans to release) at one location and 71 TBq (over 3 times as much) at the other. China has 4 nuclear power plants that release water ranging from 90 TBq at the lowest-releasing location (4 times what Japan plans to release) to 218 TBq per year (almost 10 times the amount Japan plans to release) at the highest.
Also, tritium is far less dangerous than any of the other contaminants. The others are much more dangerous, but (relatively) easy to remove from water. Tritium is hard to remove from water because it is an isotope of hydrogen with one extra neutron, so it mixes into water like normal hydrogen. Other contaminants are so much more dangerous for the same reason mercury is dangerous: they get eaten in small amounts by smaller creatures, which are in turn eaten by bigger creatures, that are then eaten by bigger creatures, etc, until the fish we humans catch have all of that mercury or radioactive material that all the smaller creatures ate piled up in one place. Tritium is part of the water, so it leaves the body as easily as water does and for that reason it does not build up the same way that mercury does or the other radioactive materials would have.
Yeah, this is just typical Chinese posturing and trying to stand on a higher morale ground that they haven't even built yet. At this point I think the Chinese - Korean - Japanese relations will never, ever be properly resolved and there's always going to be some sort of political agenda and/or hate on all sides.
@@Danny.._今年上半期の日本産水産物の輸入 最も激減させたのは米国
調べたところによりますと、米国の輸入が減少した主な日本産農林水産物・食品は日本酒、ホタテ貝と練り製品で、その主な産地はそれぞれ新潟県、宮城県と福島周辺で、いずれも放射能汚染水の海洋放出による影響を受ける地域だとみられています。(c)CGTN Japanese/AFPBB News
@@Danny.._トリチウム以外の話をしたら負け確定だからノータッチ
@user-oj7qy9tz8m Are they releasing other things that is not tritium? where can we find information about those contaminated products?
The last time I met a celebrity, i was in a queue for some 2 hours plus, and when I met him (and his partner), it was truly surreal. And it was so worth it. It was like a magic. Those people, were Chris and Sharla.
Chris isnt a celebrity. He's a god.
@@hotsecksi No, just affable.
@@Venerable_BananaAffable God Chris
Same here!!! Except I queued for like 3 hours at least but still brill
@@zoinksscoob6523 why else would the celebration be called Christmas ?
I bought the book and then started binge watching your channel, don’t know how I hadn’t come across you! Absolutely loving your work, you are incredibly talented!
Also, Pete’s South African accent is brilliant!
Welcome to the club heh
I’m kinda sad that the audio engineer made you repronounce things instead of just letting you talk how you normally talk. You’re the author after all. The vast majority of us like the way you talk and the voices you do.
I agree it's ridiculous. We live in a global economy with 100's of millions of people moving between countries all of the time. I myself am a dual citizen (American and British) living in yet another country. I think if you're embracing new experiences in your life journey and meeting and befriending people of different cultures - of course your language is going to change to represent your own experiences and worldview. If Chris, or I or any expat I know were to speak exactly the way they did from their birth country, I would think that is jingoistic and quite disturbing. I think it's great that way Chris speaks. Moreover it's his life. His story. He should be allowed to use his own voice.
Especially for a TH-camr and podcaster! I think if the author would be a full-time author, journalist or any kind of person where you normally don't hear them speak, than it might make sense, but for someone how has answered the question "Are you TH-camr?" with "yes", it doesn't because his way to talk is like his signature and also a legit selling point for the audio book!
Also, a lot of the engineer's suggestions seem dubious. My advice is, when in doubt, find out how Stephen Fry would say it.
@@Blex_040 yeah, I was waiting to buy the audiobook, but I’m not sure I want to now if it’s not really gonna sound like Chris’ natural way of speaking. I’ll probably just buy a hard copy of the book to read instead. Pretty disappointing.
Personally I'm more interested in hearing it for a bit but I feel the novelty will wear off rather quickly.
Here Chris and Pete are talking about meeting real celebrities and I’m like when I go to Japan it would be cool meeting TH-camrs. Which I’ve have, Chris, Connor and American Pete in Tokyo and Nick Petras in Sendai. That made the trip memorable.
I live in hope I'll randomly run into the trash taste boys, nick and barry chopsticks himself but they always seem to be out of the country when Im in Jp for vacation xD
Well theres always next trip!
Many of Japan’s neighbours release more Tritium water than Fukushima including China, Korea, and Taiwan. In China one reactor produces nearly 10 times the concentration of tritium water/year. The whole situation is not ideal dumping contaminated water. However the political theatrics and hypocrisy is ridiculous from Japan’s neighbours.
This, yup.
Also, while he's been wise in avoiding being used for propaganda, he's just playing right into it by not having an informed opinion and spreading FUD when he could refrain from broaching the subject.
China is hypocritical, this is one thing that's far more consistent than any (often ridiculous) western slander of the week. China would scream polluted fish yet their local fishery is both polluted and endangered (that's why their ships always caught poaching all over Southeast Asia).
oh really? like how Japan the aggressor of WW2?
@@TOOTOO-f6v how is that relevant troll?
I read the title as "Chris bans seafood".... Sounded legit in my head. 😎
I’ll never ban seafood!
Getting epilepsy from the constant cutting back and forth from a black background to staring at the sun behind Pete's back.
absolutely! normally i never notice the number of cuts in a video, and i am watching this _during a sunny day in sevilla_... so the fact i noticed means it's pretty extreme 😂😂❤❤
Skill issue
The slow release of water is perfectly safe. The levels of tritium released per year are Miniscule, several orders of magnitude less than are already in the water in the first place. Yes, the ocean has tritium in it. Also tritium has a halflife of 12 years. So that amount will consistently drop.
Hey Chris and Pete, thanks for talking about Fukushima. About the audio recording, it would have been great if they let you do your take on the voices.
I NEVER understod that. I want to be a pirate!
Why want you to kill an r*pe people???
What????? You life in japan!!! One Piece is the most know manga/anime of all time. HOW DID SHE NOT UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU ARE MEANING!!!!?? That bothered me for years now… 😅😅😅
I KNOW RIGHT
I just pre ordered the audio book!! Can’t wait!!❤
i actually think chris should collab with kyle on the fukushima stuff. kyle when visiting met with a lot of barriers culturally with the whole ''we are sorry for what happened, everything fine we have it under control'' stuff, over them actually just laying out facts and being honest. I not only think it would be a great video series,but also very informative to have videos with both someone who knows nuclear science that can ask about japanese culture and why they may do things certain ways, and someone who knows japanese culture that can ask questions on nuclear stuff. so while chris is up on japanese stuff, and kyle is up on nuclear stuff, they can both ask each other things that regular people who dont know those things, will likely be wanting to know, and i think it would be very informative.
something that in this situation is needed i think. and i can't think of two better people to do it than Kyle Hill and Chris Broad
I think anyone with a large channel such as Chris should definitely make content with actually informed people like Kyle Hill.
I didn't really like how the topic was covered in the 9 minutes they spent on it on this episode, and hearing non-experts/uninformed/underinformed people might even be more problematic than if they hadn't talked about it at all.
Would definitely love some collaborations between science communicators that covered the topic and large content creators from Japan.
I've finally managed to buy the book and really enjoying it
I'm listening to the audiobook at the moment and it sounds great, well done on the recording. Would have bought the book, but I'm visually impaired, so I depend on audiobooks. Found out about Abroad in Japan a few weeks ago, as a friend is on holiday in Japan now.
The problem is never the Tritium content. At max, Fukushima waste water discharge only gives it 700 TBq of radioactive Tritium. French, Canadian, did it much bigger. It is not a really scary radioactive material, you can safely swim in it as their weak ionising radiation can't penetrate your skin, but of course you can't ingest it.
Just like the fish found with Cesium-137, the issue is with TEPCO's handling of water release. There are so many waste water tanks, they ran out of space. They are treating the water with ALPS method to remove those radioactive Strontium, Cesium, and whatnots... dangerous corium debris washed away by the cooling water. Now, how are they going to make sure that they won't accidentally dump the wrong water tank (the untreated, instead of the treated ones)?
On the other hand, they really have to dump it no matter what, it is much safer to dump when they still can manage it. Running out of space, and the threat of impending ever savage typhoons, or another earthquake rupturing the tanks and causes leak - that is a much worse outcome.
It is easily trust issue, nothing about "science" or people who just learned about Tritium and be in certain geopolitical camp pretends to understand it.
The "yellow dust" earlier in 2023 Summer coming from Northern China is easily sand storm from Gobi dessert. Likewise, if you want to comeback at China, just point at water pollution in Chinese river like the ones in Chongqing is indeed quite concerning too. Although they are really closing down factories for that. The blanket ban on Japanese seafood is on the billions, quite a massive dent on Japanese GDP as a whole, which is why it is a big issue for Japan. For us, it represents a supply China needs to shift somewhere. Here in Southeast Asia, we are concerned that our ZEE territorial waters will be overfished as a consequence.
Well hopefully their “scare” of Fukushima fishing will stop the Chinese fishers to illegally fish in japan hahha
The fish ban has nothing to do with radioactivity, it is just a punishment tactic. The same way China found "reasons" to ban Australian imports because they kept mentioning the Uyghur people.
China's fish are much more radioactive
Why would you buy anything from a country like Australia that acts like they own Asia Pacific but are nothing more than a big pathetic island......
I don't understand why they need to dump the waste water. Exactly why are they running out of space? Who and what is continually producing more contaminated waste water? Why are they not simply recycling the old waste water to use for whatever process it is that they need?
The people complaining or afraid of the tritium water being released simply don't understand the science behind the process or the premise of dilution.
Right? China releases almost 5 times more water than japan every year lmao. It's all a sham political game.
Yeah this has been frustrating me endlessly and I'm a little disappointed that even Pete and Chris have bought into the concerns so heavily. All the experts say the levels of radioactivity are lower than normal everyday exposure.
I'd eat fish caught in that area. Not concerned at all.
CCP is just trying to make a scientific problem political. They never show any data on why banning Japanese fish imports is necessary. They expressed that treated water might contain radioactive substances other than tritium while refusing to join IAEA to monitor water.
If CCP finds out this treated water propaganda hurts the Chinese seafood market hard years later, they will say something totally opposite then (even if treated water is bad for heath).
We're concerned about things other than tritium. If the water is safe, make it bottled water and gurgle it down.
@@ausreir what other concerns? The ocean water is already more toxic to drink than that waste water and it's being diluted further by being put in the ocean.
Pete's bright background makes the video being like having a stroboscope light in the livingroom.
It's pretty jarring. My guess is they have some sort of auto camera switch based on audio levels to jump back and forth without the need for a lot of editing... but visually? it's pretty bad. I just minimized the window so I couldn't see it :)
Same! Usually leave it in a side window while I do something else, but it kept pulling my eye. Had to hide it
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@@muffin9124 I remember when right around the Ukrainian invasion the name changed from Stakhanov to Stak...
Kyle Hill covered fukushima recently. He's a scientist in the field and had gone all over the world to chernobyl, fukishima, and hiroshima. He very recently got a tour of the fukushima plant. He had issues with the presentation from those in charge, but the science is sound and isnt anything to be concerned with when it comes to the levels they are releasing the water at.
#1 fan from the Philippines sir abroad! :)
A youtuber by the name of Kyle Hill made a video the other day about the Fukushima water thing and how its not really a big deal
Good to meet you, Sharla and the team in Waterstones Chris, cheers for the book!
13:53 Stephen fry is so much fun to watch in a bit of fry n laurie, and blackadder. 😊
Just pre-ordered the audio book on audible
I’ve met Thomas Brodie Sangster on HMS Belfast.. It was an interesting experience, I wasn’t a big fan but my partner was. She was starstruck so I went to him to ask for a photo. There wasn’t anyone around so it was easy, he was a very friendly and chill guy
As someone from Middlesbrough, close to Hartlepool, I also struggle to pronounce emergency.
The auto-switching was pretty bad this episode. Not sure if the settings can be tweaked but the camera switching so often is dizzying.
I thought it was just bad editing, I didn’t realize it’s like a auto switch setting. But yeah, at first I thought it was a glitch.
China itself releases a multifold every year of this kind of water. At least with Japan you know they really did the best they could in terms of treatment of the water, they followed protocol and there was international oversight. China just likes to keep war time animosity alive for domestic purposes… The Chine economy is toast and Xinnie the Pooh is driving the country into the ground.
Think I read France releases nearly 500 times as much into the English channel every year!
Otherwise there won't be an English channel
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Let’s just find more ways to fuck up this planet when are we going to realise we have no planet B
waste water does not equate to contaminated water.
500 times the amount of tritium, not water@@ausreir
To consume enough of the water they're releasing to be any real risk of radiation-induced health effects you'd drown before you'd get irradiated. The tritium also has a relatively short half life and so won't persist long in the environment.
Based Kyle hill viewers all over the comments, nice to see y’all
Hmm...you do know that the issue isn't about drinking the seawater, right...? The issue is that fish gradually collect the radioactive elements in their flesh, other bigger fish eat tons of the smaller fish and over time this results in people eating some fish that may well be dangerously radioactive. The same problem is happening with mercury deposits and is well documented.
@@DM-kv9kj Tritiated water (what they're releasing) doesn't bioaccumulate in the same way that long half-life radioisotopes do. It's weakly radioactive and chemically it's water, so it passes into, and is later excreted by the body (fish, human or otherwise) - biological half life is around 7 to 14 days. So long as it's diluted sufficiently upon release (which it is being), it poses negligible to no health risk to humans or animals.
Mercury is non-radioactive, but is a lipophilic toxic heavy metal, which if in its bioavailable organic form is absorbed by the body and deposited and retained for many years in fatty tissues such as the myelin surrounding nerve cells, especially in the brain. This means that not only does it bioaccumulate, but it also does serious chronic harm to nerve cells once absorbed; this is why it causes brain damage.
@@jimbobur if the half life is 7 to 14 days, why in the world are they even diluting it? Just keep it for another year, and the radioactivity would go down 15 trillion times. Keep it another year, it is down 20 sextillion times.
@@danielch6662 if you read my previous comment carefully, you'll notice I said "biological half life" i.e. how long it takes for the concentration in the body to drop by half as it's excreted.
''little bit of skooma'' such a nerd Pete, gotta love sneaky skyrim references.
I'm looking forward to reading the book and listening too the audio version as well. Been watching Ken Watanabe since I was a kid and recently rewatched "Dokuganryu Masamune". It was epic!
_is fukushimas plan to release radioactive water safe?_ the TLDR is YES.
the pacific ocean contains around 8000 grams of tridium naturally.
the total amount of tridium held in all of Fukushimas water tanks is less than 3......not 3000 grams...just 3 grams
It is reassuring that Chris remains utterly British with his pronunciation of "TAP-ass". Listening to Chris and Pete do "American" is really...special. Australian: 8/10. Oh NAUR!
As a Chinese adjacent (I would never call myself Chinese) who has been following the news on the Chinese speaking side of the internet, I can safely say it's largely the long-standing racism between China and Japan, health has very little to do in the attitude Chinese people exhibit against Japanese products.
would never call yourself Chinese...racism, much? Is this irony not lost on you?
@@ausreir Because I'm Taiwanese, not Chinese, but adjacent. Go touch grass.
I've managed to meet a TH-cam guy I follow. Ian McCollum of Forgotten Weapons. He was doing a meet at a gun show in Vegas. It was pretty cool to see him in person and talk to him.
I once served a doner kebab to Rula Lenska and she went for 'chilli sauce all over' ... absolute legend (hands like a wrestler)... Memories.
Honestly, I would love for you to write another book Chris. I have been really enjoying this one. It’s been a fantastic read!
Nah this podcast should illegal, wild how much you make things interesting. Thank you so much!! Take care!
Are you perhaps using AutoPod to automatically edit these podcast videos? Because the very fast-paced jumps between Chris and Pete sometimes really throw me off. Otherwise, great episode as usual.
Nice video!
処理水放出が決定した後に、中国から福島への大量のイタズラ電話が来た。
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Congrats for audio book!
I'm still waiting for a random reaction box to pop up on screen with Chris saying すごい！
that guy was definitely trolling you with "macaque"
Ive always been nervous meeting people. You rehearse what you’d like to say and the nothing comes out lol. The last two were meet and greets too. Yourself and Sharla were great, saving me by asking about my jacket and music taste. Ant middleton did the same thing a couple years back when i had a big curly handlebar tache. In guessing its a good trick to break the ice 😅
Love from India 🌸❤️
it is conserning how's people respond to this, also the political moves for some countries also.
There is occasionally some flickering where it switches back and forth between Chris and Pete like 4 times in a second. That's a bit annoying.
4am in Malaysia!
Had a similar experience with Dara O'Briain in a hotel about a month ago. As I was leaving the breakfast buffet I almost walked into a man. So I looked up. And up. And up (he's so tall). Cue deer in headlights moment before we navigated around each other and I went back to my table, clutching my fruit and yoghurt. I don't think he even noticed a 5ft 6, 50kg girl almost bounce off him.
Will you be back in Tokyo end of September, start of October? My husband and I will be taking our long awaited honeymoon (married at start of COVID), and will be in the area during that time. We would love the chance to meet you and Sharla! I'm hoping to get pictures and autographs from most of my favorite Japan youtubers 🤞I'm also going to have your book on me the whole time incase I do see you and can get it signed 🙂
I wonder how many episodes there are left with Pete Donaldson. Think we're gonna see American Pete next week?
Well, Pete Donaldson is the co-host of the podcast. So, unless he is on holiday or cannot do it for some reason, you will have him for the foreseeable xD.
@@ukmaxi bet you haven't listened to the last few podcasts where they were talking about Pete Donaldson's trip to Japan that was upcoming (he's in japan right now)
Ah apologies, I had listened but I misunderstood your post. I just assumed they would still podcast while PD is in Japan. @@antisal4192
Now that it's easier to comment rather than writing in to the fax machine... can you mix your audio to be louder? I have to double the volume of the podcast (and these videos) vs any other podcast to have it sound the same loudness.
Which English accent does Pete have?
Pete has a northern accent. There are so many accents on this tiny island 😂
IMO it's wrong that the producers tried to change how Chris said things. It's HIS damn book! The whole point of the author reading is that you get their unique character. Unless he said something 100% undeniably wrong, just completely mashed the word beyond belief, then they should just leave it rather than trying to change his particular dialect.
Considering some of the wild-ass pronunciations I've encountered in my audiobook adventures thus far, I suppose it's nice to hear you've got an engineer who cares, but real talk Chris I've not ever heard "communal" pronounced that way even once in my life.
you said approved by UN nuclear watchdog isn't correct.... there's huge disclaimer on their report it's up to Japan's discretion to release the water and IAEA not responsible for anything happens...
I have one of those words that catches me out...Holiday....I think it's the OL part. Anyone else have a word that's usually fine when used by self, but in context it's just hard to say or comes out weird??
Can y’all change your editing so it doesn’t switch between the two of you so quickly? I get you want to focus on who’s talking, but there’s points where it switches between the two of you 6 times in 3 seconds.
Especially when you start talking over each other. Maybe do side by side at those points?
22:38 Rahm Emanuel was a terrible major for Chicago.
as an american, an american dude telling you to pronounce macaques "macocks" is definitely trolling 😂
How is it pronounced anyways, ive always said it the same as macaws but considering the difference in spelling its def confusing
@@faebees5793 muh-kaak
Kyle Hill has a great video about it
I saw Bill Nighy in the Tate so that checks out 😂
I cant help but hear "the facts machine".
Pete changed his clothes!
Well, at least more export stock for us here in NA, I see that as a win. Should lower the price for my home country too. Heck yeah.
I like The China Show when information regarding China is at hand!
Ain't this the old happy hour podcast set?
It is important to be cautious about consuming Japanese seafood because nuclear water is already in that area, but there is no need to overreact.
China wouldn't be running polution generating factories unless there is a huge Western consumer demand for cheap goods from countries like Japan and USA. Also Japan is the least EV adoption among advanced economies. In fact companies like Toyota are actively lobbying against EV adoption in the US, it's trying to preserve its polution generating internal combustion engine business as long as possible, whereas China is leading the world in EV production and battery design.
Finally someone who actually knows what’s going on
Go watch Kyle Hill's video about Fukushima and the nuclear treated water release. Seems he DID take Tepco up on their offer of a tour in the reactor, and whilst he does substantiate their claims that the treated water IS safe (as much as he could test himself which frankly wasn't much) he did say that visiting the reactor, in the bus outside the building his giger counter was going nuts, reading up to 200 msv/hr, which he says is the hottest environment he's ever been in, and he said the fact they paraded everyone around outside the bus and even had a photo shoot and Q+A was frankly a dangerous thing to do. He says even when he visited Chernobyl and went INSIDE the new safe confinement building, it still wasn't as bad as outside Fukushima's reactors.
I've been on the tour there multiple times as I work as an interpreter. They require you to wear counters that measure how much radiation you are exposed to and only let you stay outside the bus for 5-10 minutes. The amount of accumulated radiation exposure is less than you would get on an international flight or from an x-ray. It is very strictly regulated and completely safe.
Tritium has a half-life of 12 years, it's not exactly a problem for future generations. We couldn't significantly increase the whole ocean's concentration if we tried, it doesn't last long enough.
I personally think you should have done the voices
So China all of a sudden cares about the environment…? 😂
Definitely better than the Trash Taste Podcast
Pete not even picking up on the "It's unbearable" makes me sad... :((( made me laugh like my dad just said a shit joke.
Tritium can not be removed. It is literally a water molecule.
At 8. To 9:00
Why can't they just distill the water and filter out the radioactive material?
I really don't think people taking their "expert" informations on nuclear reactors from a company that found suitable to put Mark 1 G.E reactors with no release of moderator rods through gravity , but instead with rods mounted below ( through holes ! ) the containment vessel activated by electric motors the power supply of which resides in floodable diesel generators , on a coastal area prone to tsunamis , is a good idea ...... They for sure know how to make a profit , but I don't think they care really much about safety .......
I think taking "expert " information from Jvloggers is probably even worse
It seems like voice overs from foreigners is pretty much the biggest industry in Japan. Go to Japan, do voice overs.
....but your right about Macaque, no idea how elce to say it
but the way you talk is the way you speak. if they want your voice then they should be happy with how you sound.
lol citing Rom?! a politician from Chicago?- he was in office during the time they knew lead pipes delivered the water supply in that corrupt nightmare of a city. Now there is lead contamination in that city's water that's not being reported on. I took a trip to visit my friend last November there and I had to throw away my hairbrush and toothbrush from that trip, because after rinsing it in that faucet water and later treating it with isoproyl alcohol and later hydrogen peroxide solution, they still smelled off.
They just arrested a lady for wearing a kimono
How many G-forces do you pull in those car seats?
nice
Just as Japan is a "sovereign" state free to decide what to do with their contaminated water, China is free to react however they want as well.
The only "truth" lies in science, and I do not think we have had a rigorous, scientific examination but what I think does not matter as I'm a nobody with not an ounce of influence. Until we have that discussion, I'm laying off ALL seafood.
Just cook the fish in a microwave oven, and you'll be fine.
Japan should have called Nestle to take the water off their hands.
A mixture of British and English dialect ?
You mean Canadian ?
Celebrities are all about image
Just do the audio in a cockney billy butcher accent 😅
It really annoying when the media and people keep jumping about the release water. It already been process guys. Let the pro do their job
Chris is a Skoomahead
Is anyone else thinking about the rise of a real Godzilla? Anyone? 😜
Chris, her name is pronounced Zen-DAY-a.
clciked cuz thumbnail lol