Last month, we published an episode on this program detailing the aftermath of the Japanese government's decision to dump tons of nuclear radioactive wastewater into the Pacific Ocean.

This was something that the Japanese government claimed had to be done in order to alleviate the lack of storage at the Fukushima nuclear site,

that same site that was rocked by an earthquake and tsunami back in the year

2011. This action taken by the Japanese to dump this nuclear wastewater into the ocean,

it was met understandably with resistance from the neighboring countries, with some countries

actually going so far as to ban fish imports from Japan entirely.

Now the main crux of the concern, it was an isotope of hydrogen called Tridium.

It's an isotope that the Japanese scientists were not able to remove from the wastewater,

but at the same time they claimed that they were able to dilute the wastewater enough

such that the Pacific Ocean would not actually be contaminated

as a result of their actions, of dumping all this water into the ocean. Now, subsequent tests of the

water, they actually did find that to be the case. And several countries, they wound up lifting

their ban on Japanese fish products after those tests found that the water was safe. If you actually

want a full recap of

what happened there, I will link that earlier episode that we published last month. You'll be able to

find it down in the description box below. However, the reason that I bring this episode up today

is because the threat of nuclear waste tainted seafood, well, it's no longer something that only

Japan's neighbors have to worry about. Case in point, right here in the U.S., since August of this year, you had the FDA issue no

less than five separate warnings and recalls for shrimp contaminated with Sessium 137.

It's a radioactive isotope created during nuclear fission blast.

And finally, after many months of waiting, a new report, you can see right up on your screen,

it sheds light on how this shrimp sold right here in America was actually contaminated with Sessium-137.

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