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Update on the situation in the earthquake and tsunami stricken country. IAEA
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STORY: IAEA / JAPAN UPDATE
TRT: 1.36
SOURCE: IAEA
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: 22 MARCH 2011, VIENNA INTERNATIONAL CENTRE, VIENNA, AUSTRIA/ FILE

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FILE – RECENT, VIENNA, AUSTRIA

1. Wide shot, IAEA Headquarters

22 MARCH 2011, VIENNA INTERNATIONAL CENTRE, VIENNA, AUSTRIA

2. Wide shot, conference room
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Graham Andrew, Special Adviser to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General on Scientific and Technical Affairs:
“There continued to be some improvements at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, but the overall situation remains very serious. High levels of contamination have been measured in the locality of the plant. On the Fukushima site, the highest concern remains the spent fuel in the storage ponds of each reactor unit, particularly unit four.”
4. Med shot, journalists
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Graham Andrew, Special Adviser to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General on Scientific and Technical Affairs:
“In the coming days the IAEA will have two monitoring teams in Japan. One team will be in the Fukushima area and a separate team will undertake monitoring in Tokyo and the surrounding area. The Agency continues to receive data confirming high levels of radioactivity in food, notably spinach, in samples taken from 37 locations in the vicinity of 5 cities to the south of the Fukushima site. This indicates that in four prefectures some food products are above permissible levels.”
6. Med shot, journalists
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Graham Andrew, Special Adviser to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General on Scientific and Technical Affairs:
“Japan’s nuclear and industrial safety agency, NISA, has announced that contamination has been found in seawater samples taken close to the outlet of the Fukushima Daiichi plant. We have been informed by NISA about their plans to monitor the marine environment.”
8. Med shot, delegates

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The United Nations agency that coordinates global nuclear safety today reported “some improvements” in the Japanese nuclear power plant crisis, but warned that the overall situation remains “very serious” and said it had not received information on certain crucial aspects.

International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Special Adviser on Scientific and Technical Affairs Graham Andrew told a news briefing at agency headquarters in Vienna that the highest concern remains the spent fuel in the storage ponds of each of the reactor units.

He noted reactors one to three also remain of concern, adding that no information is available for the spent fuel pool of unit one and the agency still lacks data on water levels and temperatures in the spent fuel pools at units one, three and four.

Japanese emergency workers are racing to restore water cooling systems to prevent a total meltdown of the fuel rods and a major release of radioactive plumes in the worst civilian nuclear crisis since the deadly Chernobyl power plant explosion in the then Soviet Union 25 years ago. They have pumped in sea water, sprayed additional water from helicopters, and have now reconnected electricity power that was knocked out by the quake.

An IAEA radiation monitoring team took measurements at additional locations between 35 and 68 kilometres from the plant, and it plans to have two teams up and running in the coping days, one in the Fukushima area and one in Tokyo and surrounding areas.

Andrew said IAEA continues to receive data about high radiation levels in food, notably spinach, in samples taken in 37 locations in five cities to the south of Fukushima.

He also noted that Japan’s nuclear and industrial safety agency (NISA) has announced that contamination has been found in seawater samples taken close to the outlet of the Fukushima Daiichi plant and plans to continue monitoring the marine environment.

As positive developments on the nuclear crisis spawned by the 11 March earthquake and tsunami, he cited units five and six, which were already in cold shut down. Offside power is now is now being used in unit five, the pressure of the reactor pressure vessel of both units has decreased and water is being injected into the reactor pressure vessel as needed.

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