The South Korean government wants to respect the International Atomic Energy Organization (IAEA) report on Japan’s controversial plans to drain cooling water from the Fukushima nuclear ruins. The IAEA is an internationally recognized agency, deputy head of South Korea’s government policy coordination office, Park Ku Yeon, told reporters on Wednesday. “We respect their test results.”
At the same time, Park announced that the results of South Korea’s own analysis of its sales plans would be presented as soon as possible. South Korea had sent a larger group of experts to the neighboring country in Maym to verify the safety of dumping large volumes of filtered cooling water into the sea.
IAEA chief Rafael Grossi gave the green light for removal on Tuesday during a visit to Japan. Japan’s plan meets international safety standards, according to the Japanese agency’s final assessment report. China criticized the report.
Japan’s plans have also caused great concern in South Korea. The government has so far emphasized that it intends to maintain the import ban on fisheries products from Fukushima and the surrounding area, as long as concerns about possible environmental damage are not allayed. Grossi is expected in Seoul on Friday.
In 2011, an earthquake and tsunami caused a core meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. The destroyed reactors still need to be cooled with water, which is stored in huge tanks. The water must be filtered through a tunnel built about a kilometer into the sea and drained diluted.
(yam/sda/dpa)
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