Abstract
On April 13, 2021, the Japanese government officially decided to release Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant into the sea, which is harmful to the marine environment. Japan is adjacent to the East China Sea. The East China Sea is China’s main marine ecological aquaculture area. The discharge of nuclear waste water in Japan will inevitably have an impact on the status of China’s aquatic product industry and aquatic product trade. Based on the current situation of China’s aquatic products industry and the competitiveness of China’s aquatic products in foreign trade, this paper predicts the impact of Japan’s nuclear waste water discharge on China’s aquatic products trade. Therefore, China should actively use technological innovation, regulatory upgrading, optimization of fisheries technology and other policies in advance to deal with the impact of this nuclear waste water discharge.
Highlights
In 2011, Japan was hit by a magnitude 7.0 earthquake and a massive tsunami that melted down three nuclear reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant
Once the polluted water containing radioactive material is discharged into the open sea, the polluted sea area is first of all the sea off the Pacific coast of Japan, China is adjacent to Japan in the East China Sea, and the further proliferation of the nuclear waste water will certainly affect the sea area of China, it will have a negative impact on marine aquaculture and marine fishing in our country
The quality and structure of aquatic products may change to a certain extent, which will further affect China’s aquatic products trade
Summary
In 2011, Japan was hit by a magnitude 7.0 earthquake and a massive tsunami that melted down three nuclear reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. In the wake of the Fukushima accident, the reactor core continued to emit enormous decay heat, which had to be cooled by injecting water that turned into nuclear waste. About 1.25 million tons of nuclear waste water had accumulated in storage tanks near the reactors as a result of the sea facing and low lying Fukushima nuclear power plant, where groundwater continued to pool and flow into the reactors, 2021 said.On April 13,2021, the Government of the People’s Republic of China announced that it was releasing nuclear waste water into the sea after removing most of the radioactive elements. In order to cope with the impact of Japan’s nuclear waste water discharge on China’s aquatic products import and export trade, this paper analyses the current situation of China’s aquatic products industry and import and export trade, the similarity between China and other major competitors in Japan’s aquatic products market is further studied, and the impact of Japan’s nuclear waste water discharge on China’s aquatic products trade is expected, put forward the countermeasure strategy and the corresponding countermeasure suggestion
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