AHEAD of Japan’s planned release of contaminated wastewater from the wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant in the summer, some South Korean shoppers are buying salt and seafood in bulk to store at home and retailers are stockpiling in fear of a supply shortage.
Japan plans to release more than 1 million tonnes of contaminated water, primarily used to cool the reactors at the Fukushima plant, into the sea by this summer.
South Korea's fisheries authorities have vowed to ramp up efforts to monitor natural salt farms for any rise in radioactive substances and maintain a ban on seafood from the waters near Fukushima