Buyers in Taiyuan, North China’s Shanxi province, buy salt in a supermarket on Friday, after Japan began releasing treated radioactive water from the wrecked Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant into the sea the day before. Photo: VCG

Table salt is sold out in a supermarket in southwestern metropolis Chongqing. Photo: VCG

People in Nanjing, East China’s Jiangsu province, panic-buy salt on Thursday. Photo: VCG

Residents buy salt at a supermarket in Beijing on Friday. The government has urged people not to panic-buy salt products, while the China Salt Association reassured that the country has ample supply of the ingredient. Photo: VCG

A fish market in Incheon, South Korea, is empty on Thursday, the day Japan began releasing wastewater into the Pacific Ocean. Photo: The Paper

An employee inspects a fish imported from Japan for radiation at Noryangjin Fisheries Wholesale Market in Dongjak-gu, Seoul on Tuesday. Photo: VCG

A protester shouts during a demonstration against the dumping of Fukushima’s wastewater in Suva, Fiji, on Friday. Photo: Pita Simpson/VCG

A protester tears up a placard reading “nuclear radioactive wastewater from Japan” outside the Japanese consulate-general in Hong Kong on Thursday. China announced a ban on imports of aquatic products from Japan the same day. Photo: VCG

Employees from Tokyo Electric Power point out the key switch of the water discharge system in a control room on Thursday. The company plans to release about 7,800 tons of treated water over a period of about 17 days. Photo: VCG

Treated radioactive water from the failed Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant is released into the Pacific Ocean on Thursday. The plant houses about 1.34 million tons of wastewater in tanks. Photo: VCG