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STORY: VIENNA / JAPAN NUCLEAR UPDATE
TRT: 2.00
SOURCE: IAEA
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 1 APRIL 2011, VIENNA INTERNATIONAL CENTRE, VIENNA, AUSTRIA/ FILE
FILE – RECENT, VIENNA, AUSTRIA
1. Wide shot, IAEA Headquarters
2. Wide shot, conference room
1 APRIL 2011, VIENNA INTERNATIONAL CENTRE, VIENNA, AUSTRIA
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Denis Flory, IAEA Deputy Director General and Head of Department of Nuclear Safety and Security:
“Overall at the Fukushima Daiichi plant, the situation remains very serious. As concerns the pumping of water, the Unit 1 condenser is full. In preparation for transferring water in the basement of the turbine building to the condenser, water in the condenser storage tank is being transferred to the suppression pool surge tank since 31 March.”
FILE – RECENT, VIENNA, AUSTRIA
4. Med shot, delegates
1 APRIL 2011, VIENNA INTERNATIONAL CENTRE, VIENNA, AUSTRIA
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Denis Flory, IAEA Deputy Director General and Head of Department of Nuclear Safety and Security:
“As of 28 of March, recommendations for restrictions on drinking water, by the Japanese authorities, are in place at two locations in the Fukushima prefecture and restrictions continue to apply for infants only. The IAEA monitoring team made additional measurements at 9 locations West of Fukushima-Daiichi NPP. The measurement locations were at distances of 30 to 58 km from the Fukushima nuclear power plant.”
FILE – RECENT, VIENNA, AUSTRIA
6. Med shot, delegates
1 APRIL 2011, VIENNA INTERNATIONAL CENTRE, VIENNA, AUSTRIA
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Denis Flory, IAEA Deputy Director General and Head of Department of Nuclear Safety and Security:
“It was reported that analytical results in Chiba, Fukushima, Ibaraki and Tochigi prefectures for the remaining 13 of the total 111 samples for spinach and other leafy vegetables, parsley and beef indicated that iodine-131 and/or caesium-134 and caesium-137 exceeded the regulation values set by the Japanese authorities.”
FILE – RECENT, VIENNA, AUSTRIA
8. Wide shot, conference room
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) offered its latest briefing today (1 April) at agency headquarters in Vienna on the Japanese nuclear crisis stemming from the 12 March earthquake and subsequent Tsunami.
IAEA Deputy Director General and Head of Department of Nuclear Safety and Security, Denis Flory, reported that “overall” the situation at the Fukushima Daiichi plant, “remains very serious.”
He informed of continued efforts to pump water into the different reactors by a variety of means and with different levels of success.
As far as radiation monitoring, Flory said that iodine-131 was detected by the Japanese authorities in 8 prefectures, and deposition of cesium-137 in 10 prefectures and noted that “as of 28 of March, recommendations for restrictions on drinking water, by the Japanese authorities, are in place at two locations in the Fukushima prefecture and restrictions continue to apply for infants only.”
He added that the IAEA monitoring team made additional measurements at 9 locations West of Fukushima-Daiichi NPP at distances of 30 to 58 km from the Fukushima nuclear power plant.
The IAEA official reported that analytical results for 98 of the 111 samples for various vegetables, spinach and other leafy vegetables, fruit (strawberry), seafood, various meats (beef, chicken and pork) and unprocessed raw milk in eight prefectures (Chiba, Fukushima, Gunma, Ibaraki, Kanagawa, Niigata, Tochigi, and Tokyo), indicated that iodine-131, caesium-134 and caesium-137 were either not detected or were below the regulation values set by the Japanese authorities.
However, he said, analytical results in Chiba, Fukushima, Ibaraki and Tochigi prefectures for the remaining 13 of the total 111 samples for spinach and other leafy vegetables, parsley and beef indicated that iodine-131 and/or caesium-134 and caesium-137 “exceeded the regulation values set by the Japanese authorities.”
The earthquake, which struck at 2:46 p.m. local time yesterday, measured 8.9 on the Richter scale. Its epicentre was undersea, about 400 kilometres northeast of the Japanese capital, Tokyo.
The subsequent tsunami inundated towns, villages and farmland along the coast, and set off a nuclear crisis when it damaged the cooling systems at the nuclear power plant’s reactors.
