IAEA: water released from Fukushima “Does not cause technical concerns”
Japan's release into the sea of radioactive water treated by nuclear power plant No. 1 damaged Fukushima “is progressing as planned and without any technical concerns,” the UN nuclear watchdog said.
The International Atomic Energy Agency concluded its safety review on Friday, two months after it began dumping operations at Japan's northeastern complex devastated by a massive earthquake and tsunami in 2011. By the end of year plans to compile a report on its latest four-day mission. .
The IAEA's safety review "will continue to proceed in an independent, objective, science-based and transparent manner, during and after discharge," it says on its website.
Seven IAEA officials and experts from nine of the task force's 11 member countries, including China and Russia – which have criticized the release and imposed import bans on Japanese seafood – took part in the review mission, which involved an on-site water inspection. treatment and discharge plants in the nuclear complex.
During their stay, mission members also exchanged views with Japanese government officials, plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc., and the Nuclear Regulatory Authority on the operation of the plant's exhaust system and on environmental monitoring procedures.
Since August, the plant operator has pumped out about 15,600 tons of treated water with a liquid treatment system that removes most radionuclides except tritium. The tritium is diluted with seawater, leaving it at a concentration level one fortieth of that allowed by Japanese safety standards, before being discharged.
Tritium is a slightly radioactive isotope of hydrogen that releases a limited amount of beta radiation. It is not normally dangerous unless consumed in high concentrations.
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