Seoul (EFE).- The South Korean government today published the report of its group of experts in which it is said that Japan’s plan to dump purified radioactive water from the damaged Fukushima plant into the Pacific would respect international standards, including those established by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), if it is executed as it has been structured.
“The report -in which 21 South Korean experts who visited the nuclear power plant at the end of May participated- has been made with the premise that Tokyo Electric Power (TEPCO), the operator of the plant, will carry out the discharge plan as He has planned it,” explained the Minister for Coordination of Executive Policies, Mang Moon-kyu, at a press conference.
According to a simulation carried out in the report based on the emission standard established by TEPCO, radiation off the coast of South Korea would increase by one hundred thousandth of the current level.
The letter also says that the technology of the purification system of the nuclear plant, known as ALPS, has improved over time, so that, since mid-2019, levels of radionuclides in the treated water have been achieved within permissible limits. .
The South Korean government warned at the time, before 2019, that the level of six types of radionuclides present in the Fukushuma water were above levels considered safe.
The concentration of tritium, at acceptable levels
Specifically, the report states that the concentration level of tritium, the only radioactive isotope that ALPS is not capable of completely eliminating, would be within acceptable levels, taking into account that seawater would dilute it sufficiently.
The report also stresses that the currents would disperse the contaminated water to the point that radioactive materials would be undetectable once the liquid reached South Korea’s shores, saying, as the government did this week, that it respects the report IAEA regarding the spill.
The agency released a report on Monday stating that the Japanese plan “meets international safety standards” and will have “negligible” impact on human health and the environment.
The IAEA director general, Rafael Grossi, will arrive in Seoul today, where he will be until Sunday, to explain the report to different members of the South Korean Executive.
The dumping plan, which is expected to begin this summer, involves dumping into the Pacific over several decades around 1.32 million tons of contaminated water – the one used to cool the damaged reactors and the one that leaks in them through the subsoil and must then be stored in thousands of tanks- and purified from the power station.
However, Japan’s plan has generated uneasiness in neighboring countries such as China or South Korea, where surveys show that more than 80% of the population rejects the spill.
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