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Published on Nov 3, 2013
IAEA to send Fukushima probe team in end of Nov.
The head of the international nuclear watchdog says he will soon send a team of experts to Fukushima to investigate the contaminated water leaks at the crippled nuclear plant.
Director-General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Yukiya Amano, met reporters in Washington on Friday.
Amano said he will dispatch the team at the end of November. He said it will look into the water issue as well as the progress of the decommissioning work at the Fukushima Daiichi plant.
Amano says Japan needs to cooperate with international organizations in addressing the nuclear plant's problems in order to regain the trust of the global community.
He said the team will include sea water analysts. He said he believes the visit may ease concerns of Japan's neighbors and other countries about the dangers of the radioactive water leaks.
Moniz: US can help remove tritium from waste waterThe head of the international nuclear watchdog says he will soon send a team of experts to Fukushima to investigate the contaminated water leaks at the crippled nuclear plant.
Director-General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Yukiya Amano, met reporters in Washington on Friday.
Amano said he will dispatch the team at the end of November. He said it will look into the water issue as well as the progress of the decommissioning work at the Fukushima Daiichi plant.
Amano says Japan needs to cooperate with international organizations in addressing the nuclear plant's problems in order to regain the trust of the global community.
He said the team will include sea water analysts. He said he believes the visit may ease concerns of Japan's neighbors and other countries about the dangers of the radioactive water leaks.
The US Energy Secretary says his government and US companies could help Japan in removing hard-to-filter radioactive tritium from waste water at the country's crippled nuclear plant
Ernest Moniz spoke to NHK on Saturday in Tokyo, one day after visiting the Fukushima Daiichi plant.
Moniz said he was shocked to see the scale of the damage that remains more than 2 and half years after the tsunami disaster and the nuclear accident.
He said he also sensed how difficult work at the plant is with workers required to wear full face masks and other protective gear.
In particular, he referred to the issue of processing radioactive waste water.
Tokyo Electric Power Company has been able to remove most of the radioactive materials from the processed water. The one exception is tritium, which emits beta rays with comparatively weaker energy.
Moniz said removal of tritium is a challenge. But he stressed that his department and US firms have experience in processing the material when they dealt with nuclear waste water in the past.
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Tritium is a radioactive form of hydrogen that occurs both naturally — from interactions of cosmic rays with gases in the upper atmosphere — and as a by-product of the operation of in nuclear reactors and tritium processing facilities. Tritium exposure can pose a health risk if it is ingested through drinking water or food, inhaled or absorbed through the skin in large quantities.
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