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The updates – made in part due to feedback provided during an ongoing IAEA safety review process – include changes to the radiological environmental impact assessment before the discharge and the associated monitoring programmes. They also include the key issue of characterising the radioactivity in the water.
Japan announced in April 2021 that it planned to discharge more than 1.25 million cubic metres of treated water stored at the station by discharging it into the sea. The plan was approved by the nuclear regulator earlier this year.
The IAEA’s task force, a group of IAEA specialists and external experts from 11 countries, are conducting a multi-year review of the plan’s safety.
As part of its second mission the task force met in Tokyo this week with Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco), operator of Fukushima-Daiichi, and the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (Meti).
- Source: Nucnet
- Date: Saturday, 19 November 2022
- Original article: nucnet.org/news/iaea-continues-safety-review-of-water-discharge-plans-11-5-2022
An International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) task force has carried out a second mission to Japan to review the country's updated technical plans for the discharge of treated water from the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant into the sea.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Saturday, 19 November 2022
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/IAEA-review-of-Fukushima-water-discharge-progresse
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has said that a team of experts will visit Japan to observe the collection and treatment of marine samples from the sea near the Fukushima Daiichi NPP. The mission aims to verify the quality of sample collection procedures and analytical methods used by Japanese laboratories performing marine environmental radioactivity monitoring.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 09 November 2022
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsiaea-to-observe-sampling-of-seawater-near-fukushima-daiichi-10278378
A team of experts from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is beginning the latest mission to observe the collection and treatment of marine samples from the sea near the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Tuesday, 08 November 2022
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/IAEA-mission-to-check-Fukushima-marine-sampling
In their latest annual strategic progress report, experts from Japan’s Nuclear Damage Compensation and Decommissioning Facilitation Corporation (NDF – part of Tokyo Electric Power Corporation - Tepco) proposed that a massive concrete reservoir should be built and filled with water to completely enclose one of the Fukushima Daiichi reactor buildings.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Saturday, 22 October 2022
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsrussian-expert-comments-on-projected-scheme-to-remove-molten-fuel-from-fukushima-reactors-10106856
Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings (Tepco) now estimates that tanks containing treated water at the Fukushima Daiichi NPP are likely to reach capacity around the autumn of 2023, somewhat later than the initial prediction of spring 2023, after the accumulation of radioactive water slowed down in fiscal 2021, Kyodo reported. This provides more time to deal with any obstacles to plans for the discharge of the treated water into the sea from next spring.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Tuesday, 16 August 2022
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsdeadline-relaxed-for-release-of-treated-fukushima-water-9928425
Japan's Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) has formally approved Tokyo Electric Power Company's (Tepco's) plan to discharge treated water from the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant into the sea.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Saturday, 23 July 2022
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Regulator-approves-Fukushima-water-release
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) task force that carried out a mission to Japan in March to review regulatory plans for the discharge of treated water from the Fukushima Daiichi plant into the sea has published its initial findings.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Friday, 17 June 2022
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/IAEA-progress-report-on-regulatory-plans-for-Fukus
The NRA plans to make a decision on final approval after a one-month public comment period, an NRA official was quoted as saying by local media.
In April 2021 Japan announced its policy to gradually discharge more than 1.25 million cubic metres of treated water into the sea, subject to approval from the NRA, an independent regulatory body.
It asked for the International Atomic Energy Agency’s assistance to help ensure the project’s implementation. Japanese authorities said there was no practical alternative to releasing the water as storage space ran out. They said there was no risk to human health and that operating nuclear plants around the world release similar water every day.
- Source: Nucnet
- Date: Thursday, 19 May 2022
- Original article: nucnet.org/news/japan-s-nuclear-regulator-gives-initial-approval-to-water-discharge-plans-5-3-2022
Japan's Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) has endorsed Tokyo Electric Power Company's (Tepco's) plan to discharge treated water from the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant into the sea. It will give its official approval of the plan following a 30-day public comment period.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Thursday, 19 May 2022
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Regulator-backs-Fukushima-water-discharge-plan