According to the consensus reached by China and Japan last month, Japan accepts long-term international monitoring of the discharge of contaminated water from Fukushima into the sea and the participation of all stakeholders, including China, in independent sampling monitoring and laboratory analysis and comparison.
The news media learned that under the organization of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), experts from many countries, including China, recently went to the waters near the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant to independently carry out seawater sampling activities.
On October 15, the IAEA carried out marine sampling activities in the waters near the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. Experts from China, South Korea and Switzerland participated in it. They collected samples by hand and were able to conduct subsequent analysis in their respective laboratories.
This is the first practical step for the IAEA to take additional measures in the waters near the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant after China and Japan reached a consensus on the discharge of Fukushima nuclear wastewater into the sea. IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi said that he would ensure that the additional measures were properly implemented under the IAEA framework to maintain the integrity and full transparency of the process.
It is understood that under the coordination of the China Atomic Energy Agency, a number of professional research institutions in China have joined the IAEA’s “Environmental Radioactivity Measurement and Analysis Laboratory Network” and will continue to participate in the monitoring of Fukushima nuclear contaminated water under the IAEA framework, collecting relevant samples and conducting analysis.