IAEA 'disagreement with the report, no release approval' Korean government media Manipulated 'discharge approval'
The IAEA revealed 'expert disagreement' and 'the Japanese government decided to approve in August, not release approval' about the report.
However, the Korean government announced 'discharge approval' on the 7th ahead of the Japanese government, and the Korean media fabricated the report as 'discharge approval'.
Reuters interviewed IAEA Director-General Rafael Grossi, who said one or two of the international expert teams behind the report may have expressed concerns. did.
When asked whether there were differences of opinion among experts on the report, which included participants from 11 countries, including China, who were fierce critics of Japan's plan, Grossi said, "I heard that... What he did is scientifically impeccable," a Reuters Tokyo correspondent reported on the 7th.
Secretary-General Grossy said in his first interview after the report was released on the 4th that "none of the experts had raised any concerns directly with me," and Reuters reported that "he said he did not elaborate on how he heard about the matter." .
"Grossi said the IAEA's report did not amount to approving the plan and Tokyo must make a final decision on the water release, which is slated to begin later this summer," said Reuters.
Reuters said the IAEA report was marked "not endorsed".
“I was disappointed with the rushed report,” Liu Senlin, a China expert at the IAEA Technical Working Group, told the China Global Times on the 6th.
Regarding Japan's stocking plan, Grossi said: "We do not support or recommend this plan. We say it is in line with the standard. We do not take sides. I am not on the Japanese side, nor on the Chinese side, nor on the Korean side. Standards are all applied the same way,” he told Reuters.
Reuters said the treated water would be "filtered to remove most of the radioactive elements except for tritium, an isotope of hydrogen that is difficult to separate from water, before Japan releases it into the sea." “The plan has met with varying degrees of international criticism as well as resistance domestically, especially among fishing communities concerned about demand for agricultural products,” he said.
On the 7th, the Yoon Seok-yeol government announced a report evaluating Japan's Tokyo Electric Power's plan to discharge contaminated water from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, saying, "If it is followed as planned, it meets the emission standards and targets."
Bang Mun-gyu, head of the Office for Government Policy Coordination, said in a comprehensive report on the discharge of contaminated water from the Fukushima nuclear power plant that day, “As a result of examining the impact of Japan’s discharge of contaminated water on Korea, the impact on our waters is not significant.” He said 'approved'.
Yomiuri, in an article titled <Korea approves marine discharge of treated water 'meeting international standards'>, “The Korean government announced the results of its own safety verification on the morning of the 7th regarding the plan to discharge treated water from Tokyo Electric Power's Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant into the sea. “The Korean government announced its position to accept the release,” it reported on the 7th as “release approval.”
Yoon Seok-yeol regime was the first in the world to announce 'discharge approval' of TEPCO's plan to discharge contaminated water two months earlier than the Japanese government.