A crew of scientists from the Worldwide Atomic Power Company arrived in Fukushima on Monday as a part of an annual monitoring and sampling mission to make sure security of the discharge of handled radioactive wastewater into the ocean, officers stated.
Japan started discharging the wastewater from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear energy plant in August 2023. The plant was broken within the 2011 earthquake and tsunami, triggering meltdowns in its three reactors and huge quantities of radioactive water to build up.
China protested and blocked imports of Japanese seafood, which has hit Japanese seafood exporters.
The IAEA crew will take samples from the plant, coastal waters and a fish market in close by Iwaki metropolis. It is going to additionally go to to a nationwide laboratory close to Tokyo and meet with Japanese officers.
In late September, Japan and China introduced a deal that might ease China’s seafood ban and embrace Beijing within the monitoring of the wastewater discharges underneath the framework of the IAEA.
The newest IAEA mission, which included specialists from China, isn’t associated to the China-Japan deal, officers stated.
Japan says the discharge meets worldwide security requirements and is being monitored by the IAEA. Japan has criticized China over its seafood ban as unscientific and demanded a right away finish to the measure.
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