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The report is the outcome of nearly two years of work by an IAEA Task Force made up of top specialists from within the Agency advised by internationally recognized nuclear safety experts from eleven countries. They reviewed Japan\u2019s plans against IAEA Safety Standards which serve as a global reference for protecting people and the environment and contribute to a harmonized high level of safety worldwide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cBased on its comprehensive assessment, the IAEA has concluded that the approach and activities to the discharge of ALPS treated water taken by Japan are consistent with relevant international safety standards,\u201d IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi said in a foreword of the report.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cFurthermore, the IAEA notes the controlled, gradual discharges of the treated water to the sea, as currently planned and assessed by TEPCO, would have a negligible radiological impact on people and the environment,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
After taking the decision in April 2021 to discharge the water stored at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station (FDNPS) into the sea, Japan requested the IAEA to conduct a detailed review of the safety-related aspects of plan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
IAEA Director General Grossi accepted Japan\u2019s request and committed to be involved before, during, and after the water discharges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The water stored at the FDNPS has been treated through an Advanced Liquid Processing System (ALPS) to remove almost all radioactivity, aside from tritium. Before discharging, Japan will dilute the water to bring the tritium to below regulatory standards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Like elsewhere in the world, decisions related to nuclear safety are a national responsibility and Japan\u2019s Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) approved the plan in May.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The IAEA\u2019s review addressed all key safety elements of the water discharge plan in three major components: assessment of protection and safety; regulatory activities and processes; and independent sampling, data corroboration, and analysis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Over the past two years, the Task Force has conducted five\u00a0review missions<\/a>\u00a0to Japan, published six technical\u00a0reports<\/a>, met many times with the Japanese Government and Japan\u2019s Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), the FDNPS operator, and analyzed hundreds of pages of technical and regulatory documentation. Task Force members have also several times visited the site in eastern Japan to review discharge preparations there. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n Director General Grossi said the report issued today \u201crepresents a significant milestone in the IAEA\u2019s review\u201d but that \u201cour task is only just beginning\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe IAEA will continue to provide transparency to the international community making it possible for all stakeholders to rely on verified fact and science to inform their understanding of this matter throughout the process,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The IAEA\u2018s safety review will continue during the discharge phase. The Agency will also have a continuous on-site presence and provide live online monitoring on its website from the discharge facility. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThis will ensure the relevant international safety standards continue to be applied throughout the decades-long process laid out by the Government of Japan and TEPCO,\u201d Director General Grossi said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" An International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) safety review has concluded that Japan\u2019s plans to release treated water stored at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station into the sea are consistent with IAEA Safety Standards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24088,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[121,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-physics","category-research"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/contaminated-water-tank.png",493,297,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/contaminated-water-tank-200x200.png",200,200,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/contaminated-water-tank.png",493,297,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/contaminated-water-tank.png",493,297,false],"large":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/contaminated-water-tank.png",493,297,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/contaminated-water-tank.png",493,297,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/contaminated-water-tank.png",493,297,false],"ultp_layout_landscape_large":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/contaminated-water-tank.png",493,297,false],"ultp_layout_landscape":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/contaminated-water-tank.png",493,297,false],"ultp_layout_portrait":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/contaminated-water-tank.png",493,297,false],"ultp_layout_square":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/contaminated-water-tank.png",493,297,false],"newspaper-x-single-post":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/contaminated-water-tank.png",493,297,false],"newspaper-x-recent-post-big":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/contaminated-water-tank.png",493,297,false],"newspaper-x-recent-post-list-image":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/contaminated-water-tank-95x65.png",95,65,true],"web-stories-poster-portrait":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/contaminated-water-tank.png",493,297,false],"web-stories-publisher-logo":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/contaminated-water-tank.png",96,58,false],"web-stories-thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/contaminated-water-tank.png",150,90,false]},"author_info":{"info":["RevoScience"]},"category_info":"Physics<\/a> Research<\/a>","tag_info":"Research","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24086\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}