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Storage tanks used to store the discharged nuclear wastewater treated through the Advanced Liquid Processing System, Okuma, Fukushima, Japan, September 2, 2023. /CFP
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and Japan signed an agreement on Monday, setting out the full scope of the agency's "comprehensive and continuous safety review" of the discharge of the nuclear-contaminated water from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station, the agency said in a statement on Monday.
The IAEA signed the Memorandum of Cooperation on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York, nearly four weeks after the release of nuclear-contaminated wastewater last month.
The agreement focuses on the IAEA's "long-term activities during the discharge itself," including monitoring and assessment to protect people and environment, its presence in Japan and the nuclear power station and corroboration of Japan's source and the environmental monitoring based on independent sampling and analysis.
"Today's agreement sets the broad parameters for the IAEA's permanent presence at the site to implement the monitoring, corroboration and assessment activities that are indispensable for transparency and for building confidence – both in Japan and abroad – that the discharge will neither harm people nor the environment," said Rafael Mariano Grossi, IAEA's Director General.
"We will stay and carry out our technical work until the last drop of the treated water has been safely discharged into the sea," he added.
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