Statement by Ambassador KAIFU Atsushi at the IAEA Board of Governors Meeting starting on Monday, 3 March 2025 Item 3: Nuclear and radiation safety: Nuclear Safety Review 2025
2025/3/3
Thank you, Chair,
Japan observes all protocols. Japan appreciates the IAEA’s activities contained in “the Nuclear Safety Review 2025” report.
Chair,
With recognition of the great importance of IAEA Safety Standards and ongoing works to further reinforce and revise them, Japan will contribute to enhancing global nuclear safety while further improving its own regulatory framework by receiving the 2nd IRRS mission and sharing our experiences through hosting international workshops and training courses.
Japan attaches significance to the CNS as well as the JC and will participate proactively in the 8th Review Meeting of the JC in two weeks.
Chair,
Let me briefly update the Board on the discharge of ALPS treated water. For the sake of scientific and factual accuracy, it is the ALPS treated water that Japan discharges. The different term used in some previous statements is not appropriate.
Since its commencement in August 2023, more than 78,000 m3 of the treated water have been safely discharged as planned, in full compliance with international safety standards. The impartial, ongoing, multi-layered robust monitoring by the IAEA, which is the only international organization with the authority to apply relevant international safety standards, with the corroborative participation of analytical laboratories worldwide, including those from neighbouring Member States has, from the very outset, found no anomalies.
The Agency’s Task Force, comprising experts from 11 Member States including neighboring ones, has repeatedly confirmed the conclusion of the IAEA’s Comprehensive Report.
Also, additional measures under the IAEA framework, with even further active international participation and transparency, reconfirm and highlight the safety of the discharge.
I thank DG Grossi and his team, including professional staff from Monaco, as well as international experts, for conducting the additional measures under the IAEA framework, most recently two weeks ago.
The discharge activities continue to be transparent and based on scientific evidence. Japan further engages with various countries and regions in Asia Pacific and beyond. We hope concerned countries and regions eliminate their import restrictions on Japanese food products immediately, considering the accumulated monitoring results.
Chair,
From the perspective of Nuclear Safety, Japan appreciates the Agency’s work related to Ukraine. We reiterate the importance of the DG’s 7 indispensable pillars. Japan also supports the IAEA’s 5 Principles. I’ll elaborate on Japan’s position further under the relevant agenda item.
Thank you, Chair.
Japan observes all protocols. Japan appreciates the IAEA’s activities contained in “the Nuclear Safety Review 2025” report.
Chair,
With recognition of the great importance of IAEA Safety Standards and ongoing works to further reinforce and revise them, Japan will contribute to enhancing global nuclear safety while further improving its own regulatory framework by receiving the 2nd IRRS mission and sharing our experiences through hosting international workshops and training courses.
Japan attaches significance to the CNS as well as the JC and will participate proactively in the 8th Review Meeting of the JC in two weeks.
Chair,
Let me briefly update the Board on the discharge of ALPS treated water. For the sake of scientific and factual accuracy, it is the ALPS treated water that Japan discharges. The different term used in some previous statements is not appropriate.
Since its commencement in August 2023, more than 78,000 m3 of the treated water have been safely discharged as planned, in full compliance with international safety standards. The impartial, ongoing, multi-layered robust monitoring by the IAEA, which is the only international organization with the authority to apply relevant international safety standards, with the corroborative participation of analytical laboratories worldwide, including those from neighbouring Member States has, from the very outset, found no anomalies.
The Agency’s Task Force, comprising experts from 11 Member States including neighboring ones, has repeatedly confirmed the conclusion of the IAEA’s Comprehensive Report.
Also, additional measures under the IAEA framework, with even further active international participation and transparency, reconfirm and highlight the safety of the discharge.
I thank DG Grossi and his team, including professional staff from Monaco, as well as international experts, for conducting the additional measures under the IAEA framework, most recently two weeks ago.
The discharge activities continue to be transparent and based on scientific evidence. Japan further engages with various countries and regions in Asia Pacific and beyond. We hope concerned countries and regions eliminate their import restrictions on Japanese food products immediately, considering the accumulated monitoring results.
Chair,
From the perspective of Nuclear Safety, Japan appreciates the Agency’s work related to Ukraine. We reiterate the importance of the DG’s 7 indispensable pillars. Japan also supports the IAEA’s 5 Principles. I’ll elaborate on Japan’s position further under the relevant agenda item.
Thank you, Chair.