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STORY: IAEA / GROSSI FUKUSHIMA SEAWATER
TRT: 03:07
SOURCE: IAEA
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 19 FEBRUARY 2025, NEAR FUKUSHIMA DAIICHI NUCLEAR POWER STATION, JAPAN / 18 FEBRUARY 2025, KASHIWAZAKI KARIWA NUCLEAR POWER PLANT, JAPAN
19 FEBRUARY 2025, NEAR FUKUSHIMA DAIICHI NUCLEAR POWER STATION, JAPAN
1. Wide shot, IAEA Director General Rafael Marino Grossi and scientists from the Third Institute of Oceanography in China, the Korean Institute for Nuclear Safety in Republic of Korea and the Spiez Laboratory in Switzerland, boarding ship
2. Close up, map of the area
3. Med shot, Grossi and scientists on board of the ship
4. Wide shot, IAEA flag
5. Various shots, Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station seen from the ship
6. Various shots, Grossi and scientists on board of the ship
7. Various shots, Grossi and scientists collecting seawater samples
8. Wide shot, Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station seen from the ship
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Rafael Grossi, Director-General, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA):
"Near the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant, we've completed today a very important phase in our transparency efforts, through taking samples of the water here, with experts from China, from the Republic of Korea, from Switzerland."
18 FEBRUARY 2025, KASHIWAZAKI KARIWA NUCLEAR POWER PLANT, JAPAN
10. Various shots, protocol welcome of IAEA delegation by Tomoaki Kobayakawa, president and CEO of Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings, inc. (TEPCO) and other TEPCO staff
11. Various shots, Grossi viewing a range of improved nuclear safety and security features
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi joined scientists from the People’s Republic of China, the Republic of Korea, and Switzerland, along with IAEA experts, as they collected seawater samples near the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station (FDNPS) today (19 Feb).
During the sampling today, scientists from the Third Institute of Oceanography in China, the Korean Institute for Nuclear Safety in Republic of Korea and the Spiez Laboratory in Switzerland collected seawater samples from a boat in the vicinity of the FDNPS.
The samples will be analysed by the IAEA laboratories in Monaco, by laboratories in Japan and in the participating laboratories from China, Korea and Switzerland, members of the IAEA's Analytical Laboratories for the Measurement of Environmental Radioactivity (ALMERA) network, chosen to ensure a high level of proficiency and expert data.
Additionally, IAEA experts stationed at the Agency’s office at FDNPS conduct regular independent on-site analyses of the batches of treated water. The Agency has confirmed that the tritium level in the ten batches of ALPS treated water already released was far below Japan’s operational limit.
The IAEA initiated the first practical steps of the additional measures in October last year when Agency staff carried out marine sampling with international experts from China, Republic of Korea and Switzerland.
Upon their return to port, Grossi said, “near the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant, we've completed today a very important phase in our transparency efforts, through taking samples of the water here, with experts from China, from the Republic of Korea, from Switzerland."
The activity is part of the additional measures established after China and Japan agreed to extend the sampling and testing of ALPS treated water which TEPCO – operator of the FDNPS – started to discharge in August 2023.
The IAEA agreed with Japan in September to implement additional measures to facilitate the broader participation from other stakeholder countries in the monitoring of ALPS-treated water.
The previous day, Grossi met with Japanese foreign minister Takeshi Iwaya and visited Kashiwazaki Kariwa Nuclear Power Station.
