I often cite the late Takashi Odajima's essay as a paradigm to explain "harmful rumors" and "health hazards."

(1) A fly-stopped cake poses absolutely no health hazard if eaten immediately after witnessing it.

(2) The question is, how many people can eat that "cake with absolutely no health risks"?

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China has been discharging into the ocean-treated water from nuclear power plants with the same or higher levels of radioactivity than Japan.

However, the treated water from China's nuclear power plants is from "normal nuclear power plant operations."

In comparison, the treated water in our country this time is due to a "nuclear accident."

As an engineer, I believe I understand "scientifically" that there is no difference between the above two.

However, the possibility that there may be a tremendous "difference" between the above two that we do not currently know about cannot be 100% denied.

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We must not forget that our country has created a "fly" called "treated water from nuclear accidents."

I will not discuss today who created this "fly" and who is to blame for it.

However, I do not think we Japanese should forget this.

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By the way, I (Ebata) once ate a cake that a fly had stopped on.

There was no psychological resistance at all.