The scientific data contradicts the critics, as Japan shares facts and details of its Fukushima cleanup plans with foreign governments and international media.
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.
The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) has compiled a draft
revision to Japan’s Basic Energy Plan, which indicates the direction of the
government’s energy policy. The revision brings our attention to the
predicted ratios of various power sources in fiscal 2030. In order to reduce our dependence on carbon, renewable energy sources were increased
from 22 to 24% three years ago to 36 to 38% in the latest draft revision.
Some view this increase as being insufficient in making renewable energy
Japan’s main energy source.
But we commend the willingness expressed to
undertake the maximum possible implementation of renewable energy as an
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