THE IAEA will have a permanent presence at the Fukushima plant to supervise the discharge of waste into the Pacific Ocean

He International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) will have a “permanent presence” for decades in the rugged central fukushima to supervise the discharge into the sea of ​​wastewater and alert in case of detecting irregularities, according to what its manager said today, Rafael Mariano Grossi.

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He IAEA has reached an agreement with the Japanese authorities and with the plant operator, Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) to have a fixed office at the atomic facilities while the download process continues at the Peaceful of the liquid treated in parallel to the dismantling of the plant, Grossi said.

“We will analyze the discharge to verify that it occurs within certain parameters and that it does not pose any harm to the environment.”explained Grossi during a press conference in tokyoat the end of his visit to Japan to present the conclusions of the evaluation of the IAEA about the Japanese plan to get rid of the water accumulated in Fukushima Daiichi.

“If we detect any problem, we will alert the Japanese authorities, who will have to act”added Grossi, who recalled that the IAEA “provides a technical assessment” of the spill but “has no authority to stop or start the download”.

The body published last Tuesday its report that establishes that the Japanese plan to dump the Peaceful tons of contaminated and processed water to remove most of the radioactive waste “meets international safety standards” and it will have an impact”insignificant” for human health and the environment.

The approval of the IAEA to the Japanese plan has not been enough to appease the opposition that local Fukushima fishermen continue to show to the measure, nor the concern that the imminent spill has generated in some neighboring countries such as China or South Korea.

Regarding doubts or criticisms about the safety of the spill, grossi expressed his “full confidence in the evaluation process” carried out by the IAEA and in its “solid” conclusions, and reiterated that the nuclear material residues that can end up in the Pacific represent “insignificant doses”.

The Argentine diplomat said “understand” the rejection that the spill continues to generate, and even acknowledged that it is “logical” that it should be like that when it is a matter “difficult to understand for non-experts.”

For this reason, he added, the IAEA and the Japanese authorities “They must put measures in place to prevent it from causing any harm” and “increase their efforts to properly explain” what the spill entails.

With that objective, grossi will travel this Friday to South Koreawhere he will stay until Sunday and hold meetings with national authorities, and then travel to other Pacific island countries that have also expressed concern about the discharge of water from fukushima.

China, which has harshly criticized the plan and called on Japan to abandon it, said earlier today that its customs authorities will apply a “high degree of vigilance” on food imports from Japanfollowing the “concern among Chinese consumers” about the safety of Japanese products.

In South Koreadespite the fact that surveys show that 80% of its population opposes the Japanese dumping and the main opposition party has been expressing strong rejection of the measure, the Government today published a report prepared by its own group of experts whose conclusions are similar to those of IAEA.

Source: Elcomercio

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