Fukushima IAEA office and nuclear power plant facility visit inspection
“Directly check the flow meter in the transfer line electrical equipment room”
“IAEA Monitoring TF Review Conducted…Korea Participates”
On the 11th, the government said about the third dispatch of Korean experts related to the safety of discharge of contaminated water from the Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan, “We will inspect major facilities such as the electrical equipment room of the contaminated water transfer line and the K4 tank area to determine whether the second discharge is being carried out as planned and prepare for future discharge.” “We checked to see what the situation was,” he said.
Park Gu-yeon, First Deputy Director of the Office for Government Policy Coordination, explained the third deployment of experts from the Korea Institute of Nuclear Safety (KINS) as of the 10th at a daily briefing on the discharge of Fukushima contaminated water held at the Seoul Government Complex this morning.
They visited and inspected the site situation, including the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Fukushima field office and nuclear power plant contaminated water transfer facilities.
Deputy Director Park said, “Through a visit to the Fukushima field office and a video conference with the IAEA headquarters, our experts confirmed that there were no unusual findings in the facility inspection after the first discharge, and that the phenomenon of seal swelling in four upstream water tanks was unrelated to safety. “I did it,” he said.
He added, “We were also provided with an explanation that the IAEA collected samples from the upstream water tank and analyzed the tritium concentration separately from TEPCO, and obtained similar results to TEPCO.”
During the on-site visit to the Fukushima nuclear power plant facility, experts inspected the electrical equipment room of the contaminated water transfer line, the K4 tank area, etc. and checked the status of secondary discharge and future discharge preparations.
Deputy Director Park said, “In the electrical equipment room of the transfer line, we directly observed the flow meter and confirmed that about 18 to 19 ㎥ of contaminated water per hour is flowing into the dilution facility, and in the K4 tank area, there is still a fourth discharge to the B tank group, which was the primary discharge target. “We confirmed that no contaminated water to be discharged was introduced,” he said.
Meanwhile, the IAEA monitoring task force review activities, in which experts from 11 countries, including Korea, participate, will be conducted from the 23rd to the 28th. IAEA monitoring TF activities have been carried out since July 2021, but this is the first time since the discharge of contaminated water began.
Deputy Director Park said, “The IAEA plans to verify changes in the marine environment after discharge and whether TEPCO complies with international safety standards by collecting and analyzing samples of seawater, sediment, and fish in the sea area near Fukushima,” and added, “Sample collection and analysis include: “Not only IAEA laboratories, but also professional organizations from China, Canada, and Korea will participate,” he said.
Source: Donga
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