Fire extinguishant spill accident at the U.S. military Futenma base The Japanese side's first environmental access survey April 15 15:23
Defense Minister Kono at a press conference over a large-scale fire extinguishing agent spill at the U.S. military Futenma base in Okinawa. It was revealed that the on-site investigation was done.
On the 10th of this month, about 227100 liters of extinguishing agent containing "PFOS", an organic fluorine compound, which was pointed out to be harmful, was spilled from the fire extinguishing equipment in the aircraft hangar of the US military Futenma base in Okinawa. About 143,800 liters spilled out of.
Regarding this, Minister of Defense Kono visited a press conference on the 16th for the first time based on the "environmental supplementary agreement" that six employees of the Ministry of Defense and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs have agreed with the US and Japanese governments. Revealed that I went to.
Employees were informed about the situation of extinguishing agent from the US side, and the hangar door, which was supposed to be closed, was left open at the time of the accident, so the amount leaked out increased. It has become clear.
Mr. Kono said, "The on-site survey does not end yesterday, and we can do it in Okinawa Prefecture and the local city of Ginowan. We will continue to conduct surveys if there is a need."