Did the toxic Fukushima waste water just kill fish and birds in Kuching, Malaysia?!
Take a look at the viral claims, and find out what the facts really are!
Claim : Toxic Fukushima Water Killed Fish + Birds In Kuching!
People are sharing a video on WhatsApp, which claims to show hundreds of fish in Kuching killed by the toxic Fukushima waste water. It’s paired with warnings like this:
How to explain this happen here in Kuching 🫤🤔
Not too long ago, the pigeons at our waterfront drop dead from poisoning ☹️🫤
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Truth : Fukushima Water Did Not Kill Fish + Birds In Kuching!
This is yet another example of FAKE NEWS surrounding the release of treated waste water from the Fukushima NPS, and here are the reasons why…
Fact #1 : Viral Video Was Recorded In Kuching
The viral video was streamed live by Sarawak Edition at 12:14 PM on Sunday, 17 September 2023.
Sarawak Edition said that it recorded the video at Jalan Rock in Kuching, near the Shell petrol station, and an Indian temple.
I managed to geolocate the exact location the video was recorded (Google Map link) to the monsoon drain next to the Sri Maha Mariamman Temple at Jalan Rock, Min Chun Garden, in Kuching, Sarawak.
On the left is the Google Map Street View taken on March 2019, and on the right is a screenshot from the video showing the same electrical pole and high-rise building.
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Fact #2 : It Was A Monsoon Drain
If you look carefully at the video, you can see that it is a monsoon drain, and not a river.
According to the person on the video, the dead fish appears to be tilapia. That’s not surprising – tilapia are hardy freshwater fish that can often be found in these monsoon drains.
I should point out that monsoon drains collect waste water from the surrounding area to be treated or released into the sea. The waste water goes into the sea, not the other way around!
Fact #3 : Fish Are Sometimes Found Dead In Monsoon Drains
Even though tilapia are hardy fish, they can sometimes be found dead in monsoon drains. That can occur if toxic substances are poured into the monsoon drain, or drains that flow in.
In February 2022, for example, tilapia fish were found dead in Kulai, Johor. Similarly, over 1,000 dead fish was found floating in a monsoon drain in Taman Seraya, Ampang in October 2014.
Obviously, all those cases have nothing to do with the release of the Fukushima waste water in Japan on August 24, 2023.
Fact #4 : Fukushima Waste Water Cannot Fly…
Fukushima is over 5,000 kilometres away from Kuching, Sarawak, as the crow flies. It is quite impossible for the waste water released by the nuclear power station there to flow all the way here.
Even if the Fukushima waste water is a homing torpedo designed to attack Kuching, it would have to flow past Taiwan, Hong Kong, China, the Philippines, and Vietnam, to reach Sarawak. There would have been reports of dead fish from those countries, but of course, nothing of that sort happened.
But most importantly, the dead fish is located deep inland – some 20 kilometres away from the nearest seaside.
Even if the Japanese somehow designed the Fukushima waste water to attack Kuching, the waste water cannot fly over land to kill tilapia fish 20 kilometres inland!
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Fact #5 : Pigeons Were Found Dead On 2 August 2023
It is true that 41 pigeons were found mysteriously dead at the Kuching Esplanade. However, that incident occurred on the morning of 2 August 2023.
The Fukushima-Daiichin NPS only started releasing its treated waste water more than 3 weeks later – on Thursday, 24 August 2023. So the dead birds were definitely not killed by the release of the treated radioactive water from Fukushima…
Unless the Japanese invented a time machine to go back in time to kill those birds with the treated waste water? Now that might make for a good movie plot!
Fact #6 : Kuching Pigeons Were Likely Poisoned
The Sarawak Department of Veterinary Services (DVS) director Dr. Adrian Susin Ambud said that the department collected samples, and a preliminary investigation ruled out avian influenza (bird flu) as their cause of death. He believes that the pigeons were most likely poisoned.
The section of the Kuching Waterfront where the dead pigeons were found is known as a place where the public often feeds a large flock of pigeons. In fact, in this photo, you can see some bird food scattered on the roadside.
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Fact #7 : This Is Just Fake News About Fukushima
There is no doubt that Japan is facing a LOT of criticism over its release of the Fukushima waste water, even though IAEA and many experts have endorsed the plan.
However, this is just another example of FAKE NEWS being created around the Fukushima nuclear plant disaster. Here are other examples I fact checked earlier:
- Did Toxic Fukushima Water Kill Fish In Indonesia?!
- Yasuhiro Sonoda Died After Drinking Fukushima Water?!
- Did Fukushima Water Kill Thousands Of Fish In Penang?!
- Nuclear Radiation Created These Mutant Creatures?!
- Are Japanese Airports Empty After Chinese Boycott?!
- Singapore Just Found NEW Radioactive Food From Japan?!
- Is BlackRock The Largest Shareholder Of TEPCO?!
- EU + Japan Have Secret Agreement To Re-Export Seafood?!
- What Makes Fukushima Radioactive Water Different?
- Did Fukushima Just Release Black Radioactive Water?!
- Did Hong Kong Just Ban ALL Food From Japan?!
- Fukushima Waste Water Release : Should You Be Worried?!
- The Highly Radioactive Japanese Food Video Explained!
- Truth About FDA Import Alert 99-33 On Japanese Food!
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