The United Nations nuclear chief was to visit Japan's tsunami-wrecked nuclear power plant Wednesday after the agency affirmed the safety of a contentious plan to release treated radioactive water into the sea.
On his way to the Fukushima Daiichi plant, a highlight of his four-day Japan visit, International Atomic Energy Agency chief Rafael Mariano Grossi joined a meeting of government and utility officials, as well as local mayors and fishing association leaders, and stressed the continuous presence of this agency throughout the water discharge to ensure safety and address the residents’ concerns.
The IAEA, in its final report released Tuesday, concluded the plan to release the wastewater - which would be significantly diluted but still have some radioactivity - meets international standards, and its environmental and health impact would be negligible. Iwaki Mayor Hiroyuki Uchida asked the government to prioritize a thorough explanation rather than their release timeline.
Park Ku-yeon, first vice minister of South Korea’s Office for Government Policy Coordination, said Seoul plans to comment on the IAEA findings when it issues the results of the country’s own investigation on the potential effect of the water release, which he said will come soon. China doubled down on its objections to the release in a statement late Tuesday, saying the IAEA report failed to reflect all views and its conclusions were “largely limited and incomplete.” It accused Japan of treating the Pacific Ocean as a sewer.
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