Japan and IAEA to do joint ‘ocean monitoring’ in Fukushima 汚染水、ＩＡＥＡが海域調査へ…政府、受け入れ

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Oct 11, 2013 Faith Aquino Features, National No Comments

The Japanese Government and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) will be working together to better assess radioactive waters in the seas following reported leaks from the defunct Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. International concerns over the leaked contaminated waters have even prompted South Korea to ban fishery products from 8 prefectures in northeast Japan.

IAEA Director-General Yukiya Amano and Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) Chairman Shunichi Tanaka met in Tokyo on Thursday and confirmed mutual cooperation in checking immediate and nearby bodies of water surrounding the TEPCO-operated nuclear plant. “Ocean monitoring is extremely important, and the IAEA would very much like to provide as much support as possible,” Amano said during his meeting with Tanaka. Methods on how to carry out ocean monitoring as well as other information will be discussed by a team of experts from IAEA, which is based in Vienna, as they arrive in Japan next month.

Despite assurances from the Japanese Government that the radiation level around the nuclear facility and Fukushima Prefecture remain within acceptable limits, people remain dubious. Results of the joint monitoring project will be released according to the agreement of IAEA and NRA officials. Tanaka hopes that through the participation of the international agency, concerns from neighbouring countries will be addressed. This may also help convince South Korea to lift their fish ban in the Tohoku Region.

汚染水、ＩＡＥＡが海域調査へ…政府、受け入れ

http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/science/news/20131022-OYT1T00622.htm
(Editor's note:   This is not really a good news.)