China News Service, March 3. According to Yonhap News Agency, in order to deal with the problem of Japan's Fukushima nuclear power plant's sewage entering the sea, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of South Korea has temporarily formed a small task force in December 2022.
Yoon Hyun-soo, Director of Climate and Environmental Science and Diplomacy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, served as the team leader, and the team members were working-level staff from the Asia-Pacific Bureau and the International Legal Bureau.
The task force aims to promote coordination among relevant departments on dealing with nuclear wastewater issues.
Data map: Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant.
In addition, in October 2018, the South Korean government established an interdepartmental response team involving 10 departments, including the State Coordination Office, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Science and Technology Information and Communications, and the Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries, to deal with the discharge of Fukushima nuclear wastewater.
The report pointed out that with the imminent discharge of nuclear contaminated water into the sea and the drafting of the comprehensive assessment report of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) coming to an end, the South Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs set up its own task force, hoping to coordinate the work more efficiently and systematically response.
The Japanese government has announced that, in view of the imminent saturation of nuclear sewage storage tanks, it will begin to dilute nuclear sewage with seawater in the spring of 2023 and discharge it into the sea area of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant.
Japan plans to dilute the tritium concentration of sewage to 1,500 becquerels per liter, and the discharge standard is 1/40 of the national safety limit.