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STORY: IAEA / JAPAN NUCLEAR UPDATE
TRT: 1:28
SOURCE: IAEA
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGAUGES: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 5 MAY 2011, VIENNA, AUSTRIA / RECENT
RECENT - VIENNA, AUSTRIA
1. Wide shot, exterior IAEA headquarters
5 MAY 2011, VIENNA, AUSTRIA
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Denis Flory, Deputy Director General and Head, Department of Nuclear Safety and Security, International Atomic Energy Agency:
“Overall the situation at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant remains very serious but to track progress towards achieving the three basic safety functions of criticality prevention, decay heat removal and mitigation of radioactive releases. The IAEA had developed new charts.”
3. Cutaway, audience
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Denis Flory, Deputy Director General and Head, Department of Nuclear Safety and Security, International Atomic Energy Agency:
“These charts will be the IAEA’s benchmark for following the roadmap announced previously by the Tokyo Electrical Company (TEPCO) for bringing the nuclear reactors and the spent fuel pools in the plant to a stable cooling condition and to mitigate radioactive releases.”
5. Cutaway, audience
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Denis Flory, Deputy Director General and Head, Department of Nuclear Safety and Security, International Atomic Energy Agency:
“Today on the 5th of May, TEPCO submitted a report to NISA on the plan to fill the primary containment vessel of unit 1 with water up to a level above the reactor fuel rods. This measure is intended to provide a stable cooling of the reactor and the reactor pressure vessel.”
RECENT - VIENNA, AUSTRIA
7. Wide shot, exterior IAEA headquarters
The UN Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) reported today (5 May) that the situation at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan remains "very serious" but the Agency has developed new charts to track progress towards achieving the three basic safety functions of criticality prevention, decay heat removal and mitigation of radioactive releases.
Addressing the press at the IAEA headquarters in Vienna, Austria, the agency’s head of safety and security Denis Flory told reporters that the charts will set benchmarks “for bringing the nuclear reactors and the spent fuel pools in the plant to a stable cooling condition and to mitigate radioactive releases.”
The IAEA receives information from various official sources in Japan through the Japanese national competent authority, the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency (NISA).
Flory said that today the Tokyo Electrical Company (TEPCO) submitted a report to NISA on the plan to fill the primary containment vessel of Unit 1 with water up to a level above the reactor fuel rods. He added “this measure is intended to provide a stable cooling of the reactor and the reactor pressure vessel.”
The plant suffered major damage from the earthquake and tsunami that struck the country on 11 March and has been spewing radioactive contamination into the environment ever since.
