Japanese laboratories monitoring radionuclides in seawater, marine sediment and fish near the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station (NPS) produce reliable data, demonstrating a continued high level of accuracy and competence, according to an International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) report released today , covering the 2017-20 time period.
The IAEA has worked with the Japanese laboratories since 2014, following a request by the Japanese Government to assist it in ensuring that its sea area monitoring around Fukushima Daiichi maintains a high quality, and is comprehensive, credible and transparent. The first phase of the Marine Monitoring Confidence Building and Data Quality Assurance project covered the years 2014 to 2016. It also found that Japan produced reliable data on marine samples near Fukushima Daiichi NPS.