China puts a ban on Japanese aquatic imports in a row over radioactive water.

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I'm Leana Bern, a very good morning to you.

Japan is releasing treated radioactive water from its Fukushima nuclear plant into the Pacific Ocean.

There's been plenty of opposition from several of its neighbors, including China.

Now China has slapped a ban on any aquatic goods originating from Japan.

The BBC's Japan correspondent Shimaikalil expands.

This is the water that's been used for years now, for 12 years or so,

to cool the melted reactors that were destroyed in the 2011 tsunami disaster

that led to the nuclear meltdown.

This water itself becoming radioactive has been treated and stored in over a thousand tanks.

Now there's so much of it now, 1.3 million tons, that the tanks have reached capacity

and it needs somewhere to go.

The government deems it safe.

The scientists and experts have been saved.

Tepco, the company that runs the plant, has said that this water has gone through a process of treatment and dilution.

The water is not entirely radiation-free because it will contain radioactive isotopes that are very difficult to remove from water.

And yet, they say that with the dilution, the fact that it's going to be pumped into the ocean,

the concentration is going to be well below safety standards.

And even though Japan has offered all of these studies, if you will, and reports,

Japan has a lot of convincing to do here inside the country and for its neighbors.

We're not very far from the nuclear plant and we're also next to a fishing port.

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