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VIENNA / JAPAN NUCLEAR LAB
STORY: VIENNA / JAPAN NUCLEAR LAB
TRT: 1:57
SOURCE: IAEA
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 14 APRIL 2011, VIENNA, AUSTRIA
1. Close-up, opening of suitcase from Japan to remove inner case, ccontamination check with Geiger counter on the external surface of the inner case
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Rodolfo Cruz Suarez, Operational Radiation Protection Specialist, International Atomic Energy Agency:
“When we visited several locations over two weeks, we witness decreasing of the dose rate and the contamination activity on the ground. Due to the fact the radionuclide are decaying, the iodine mainly. And also the weather conditions, it was snowing, raining and all this helps in some areas to wash out the radioactivity from the ground, from the roads and concrete, on the ground. But on the grass, there is radioactivity there that will not be removed by natural processes.”
3. Various shots, scientists looking at samples
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Rodolfo Cruz Suarez, Operational Radiation Protection Specialist, International Atomic Energy Agency:
“We are currently analysing all sample bought to the agency and I would like to recognize the job of the agency laboratory that are helping in assessing the situation.”
5. Various shots, IAEA Gamma Spectrometry Specialist placing sample into gamma spectrometer
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Alessia Ceccatelli, Gamma Spectrometry Specialist, International Atomic Energy Agency:
“We are trying to detect any kind of contamination that can be transferred from the nuclear plant to the environment so we want to see if there is some radioactivity present in these samples.”
7. Various shots, IAEA Gamma Spectrometry Specialist analyzing sample on computer
The International Atomic Energy Agency’s (IAEA) laboratories in Seibersdorf are analysing samples from Fukushima to identify the radionuclide composition of the release from the nuclear power plant and the level of contamination.
Shortly after the earthquake and tsunami in Japan triggered the nuclear accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, the IAEA had dispatched teams of radiation monitoring experts to assist the Japanese authorities.
SOUNDBITE (English) Rodolfo Cruz Suarez, Operational Radiation Protection Specialist, International Atomic Energy Agency:
“When we visited several locations over two weeks, we witness decreasing of the dose rate and the contamination activity on the ground. Due to the fact the radionuclide are decaying, the iodine mainly. And also the weather conditions, it was snowing, raining and all this helps in some areas to wash out the radioactivity from the ground, from the roads and concrete, on the ground. But on the grass, there is radioactivity there that will not be removed by natural processes.”
The main purpose of these missions was to carry out environmental monitoring between 20-to-80 kilometres from the Fukushima accident site and Tokyo surroundings and take samples, which included air filters, smears, grass, water and soil.
At the Seibersdorf Laboratories, scientists are still examining the samples collected by the radiation monitoring experts.
SOUNDBITE (English) Alessia Ceccatelli, Gamma Spectrometry Specialist, International Atomic Energy Agency:
“We are trying to detect any kind of contamination that can be transferred from the nuclear plant to the environment so we want to see if there is some radioactivity present in these samples.”
The final results will be presented to the Japanese authorities.
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