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STORY: VIENNA / JAPAN NUCLEAR BRIEFING
TRT: 2:02
SOURCE: IAEA
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGES: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 2 JUNE 2011, UNITED NATIONS, NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, briefing room
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Denis Flory, Deputy Director General and Head of the Department of Nuclear Safety and Security, International Atomic Energy Agency:
“Today I shall start the briefing the usual way by giving the overall assessment of the situation which is in our view still very serious at Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power-plant.”
3. Cutaway, delegates
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Denis Flory, Deputy Director General and Head of the Department of Nuclear Safety and Security, International Atomic Energy Agency:
“The daily monitoring of the deposition of caesium and iodine radionuclides for 47 Prefectures is continuing. Since 17 May, deposition of iodine-131 has not been observed and low-levels of caesium-137 deposition were reported in a few Prefectures on a few days since 18 May. And the reported values range between 2.2 to 91 Becquerel per square meter for caesium-137.”
5. Cutaway, delegates
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Denis Flory, Deputy Director General and Head of the Department of Nuclear Safety and Security, International Atomic Energy Agency:
“Most of the monitoring continues to be concentrated in the Fukushima prefecture where 328 out of a total of 818 samples, which means over 40 per cent were collected. Analytical results for about 93 percent of this 818 samples indicated that caesium-134 or iodine 131 were either not detected or were below the regulation values set by the Japanese authorities. However, 52 samples were above regulation values for caesium and/or iodine.”
7. Med shot, delegates at briefing
A senior official with the United Nations International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said today (2 June) that radiation monitoring was continuing in and near the nuclear power plant that suffered major damage from the earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan on 11 March.
Briefing Member-States at the IAEA headquarters in Vienna nearly three months after the incident, IAEA Deputy Director General and Head of the Department of Nuclear Safety and Security Denis Flory said that the situation at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant remains “very serious.”
In recent weeks Japanese authorities have carried out a number of measures in response to the incident, and yesterday a fact-finding mission sent by the IAEA submitted its preliminary report on its recent visit to the country.
In its preliminary report, the team of international nuclear safety experts from 12 countries said Japan had underestimated potential tsunami hazards to its nuclear power plants before the March earthquake and tsunami.
To protect against potential damage as a result of future earthquakes, Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) also started work on installing a supporting structure for the floor of the spent fuel pool of Unit 4.
It is also continuing with the daily monitoring of the deposition of caesium and iodine radionuclides for 47 prefectures. Flory added that “since 17 May, deposition of iodine-131 has not been observed and low-levels of caesium-137 deposition were reported in a few Prefectures on a few days.”
Radiation monitoring of the marine environment continues as does food monitoring. Flory said that most of the monitoring “continues to be concentrated in the Fukushima Prefecture where 328 out of a total of 818 samples, which means over 40 per cent were collected.”
There are still restrictions on the distribution of raw unprocessed milk, turnips and bamboo shoots in specific areas of Fukushima prefecture, as well as on the distribution and consumption of specific vegetables such as spinach, cabbage, cauliflower and shiitake mushrooms.
