The 3rd IAEA-MOE Experts' Meeting

Date: April17-21, 2017

The 3rd IAEA-MOE Experts' Meeting on Environmental Remediation of Off-Site Areas after the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station Accident was held in Tokyo and Fukushima from 17 -21 April 2017.
Since Ministry of the Environment(MOE) completed the whole area decontamination in Special Decontamination Area(SDA) as the end of March 2017, based on the Decontamination Implementation Plan, the meeting covered four topics as below;

• The outcomes of the environmental remediation works carried out at the off-site areas affected by the accident at TEPCO’s Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station
• The lessons learned on remediation based on data collected in Date City;
• The evaluation of the effects of the whole area decontamination
• The way of sharing the results from the applied technologies for decontamination and waste volume reduction with the international community.

As the summary shows, IAEA team gave some proposal of suggestions to MOE for further consideration in progressing the environmental remediation and related works.
IAEA team also concluded that significant progress has been made with the remediation in the offsite areas affected by the accident, and that steady progress on the ISF construction and soil/waste transportation to this facility has been made.
Site visits to review the activities on soil-recycling conducted in Minami-Soma City and the incineration of combustible waste in a dedicated facility in Date City took place during the last day of the week.

The summary of the meeting is as follows;

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