ONJUKU, Japan (AP) — Scientists from the U.N. nuclear agency watched Friday as Japanese lab workers prepared samples of fish collected at a seafood market near the Fukushima nuclear plant to test the safety of treated radioactive wastewater released from the damaged plant into the sea.
On Friday, a team from the International Atomic Energy Agency watched as fish samples were prepared at the Marine Ecology Research Institute in the coastal town of Onjuku near Tokyo.
During Friday's lab visit, technicians prepared samples for the measurement of tritium, which cannot be removed from the wastewater by the treatment equipment at the Fukushima plant.
Other lab workers packed processed fish samples for measuring Cesium, which experts say is important to monitor because it tends to stay in fish muscles.
The Oct. 16-23 sampling work will be followed by a separate IAEA task force that will review the safety of the water discharge.
Persons:
”, Iolanda Osvath, searobin, Paul McGinnity
Organizations:
—, Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings, International Atomic Energy Agency, Marine Ecology Research, IAEA, TEPCO
Locations:
ONJUKU, Japan, China, Russia, Onjuku, Tokyo, South Korea, Canada