IAEA9月理事会（議題4原子力・放射線安全）ステートメント（海部篤大使）（英語）
令和6年9月9日
Thank you, Chair.
Japan highly appreciates the Agency’s activities contained in the DG’s report ‘Nuclear and Radiation Safety’. We commend DG Grossi, DDG Evrard and their team for their tireless efforts.
Japan attaches great importance to IAEA Safety Standards and appreciates the Secretariat’s work, along with experts from Member States, in establishing and revising them.
We remain committed to the Convention on Nuclear Safety, and the Joint Convention, and welcome the fruitful discussions at their extraordinary meetings.
Japan hosted the Agency’s technical meeting in February 2024 on Strengthening National Regulatory Infrastructure to share lessons from the Fukushima Daiichi accident, including information on Japan’s national regulatory framework. Japan also supported the IAEA School on Leadership for Safety in Japan and received a SALTO review mission in April this year.
Japan is committed to enhancing global nuclear safety, while further improving its own nuclear regulatory framework.
Chair,
On TEPCO’s Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station (FDNPS), let me update the Board on the discharge of ALPS treated water. I sincerely appreciate the professional work of the Agency led by DG Grossi.
As always, the term “contaminated water” is not appropriate. It is the ALPS treated water that Japan discharges, and I listened carefully and noticed the positive support to, actual contribution to, and explicit confidence of the international community on, the ongoing efforts of the IAEA.
Since its commencement in summer last year, 8 batches of the treated water have been so far safely discharged as planned. The IAEA’s impartial, ongoing multi-layered robust monitoring with corroborative participation of analytical laboratories worldwide, including the ones from neighboring states, has consistently found no anomalies.
On its latest review mission report issued on July 18thth, the IAEA reaffirmed again the conclusions of its Comprehensive Report in July 2023, that the discharge will have a negligible radiological impact on people and the environment.
The IAEA remains committed to continuing its review and independent monitoring until the last drop of the water is safely discharged. The IAEA exercises its statutory mandate to provide for the application of international safety standards. The tireless efforts of the IAEA Secretariat are ample expression of the authority and independence of the Agency. What matters here is to preserve the legitimacy of the Agency.
Japan will continue the discharge in a transparent manner based on scientific evidence. Japan will engage even more closely and proactively with various stakeholders in the Asia Pacific region and beyond.
Chair,
I noticed previous mentioning on recent incidents at the FDNPS. I would like to make it clear that they were unrelated to the discharge of ALPS treated water. It was clearly stated in the relevant DG statement. TEPCO imposes measures to avoid recurrence. The Government of Japan continues to supervise TEPCO’s activities even more robustly and ensure transparency.
Chair,
From the perspective of Nuclear Safety, Japan appreciates the work of the DG and his team related to Ukraine and reiterates the importance of the DG’s Seven Pillars. We support the IAEA’s five concrete principles to help ensure nuclear safety and security at Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant. We will later elaborate further, under the relevant agenda item, our position on the precarious situations on nuclear safety and security in Ukraine as a result of Russian Federation’s aggression and actions.
With these comments, Japan takes note of the report contained in GOV/2024/40.
Thank you, Chair.
Japan highly appreciates the Agency’s activities contained in the DG’s report ‘Nuclear and Radiation Safety’. We commend DG Grossi, DDG Evrard and their team for their tireless efforts.
Japan attaches great importance to IAEA Safety Standards and appreciates the Secretariat’s work, along with experts from Member States, in establishing and revising them.
We remain committed to the Convention on Nuclear Safety, and the Joint Convention, and welcome the fruitful discussions at their extraordinary meetings.
Japan hosted the Agency’s technical meeting in February 2024 on Strengthening National Regulatory Infrastructure to share lessons from the Fukushima Daiichi accident, including information on Japan’s national regulatory framework. Japan also supported the IAEA School on Leadership for Safety in Japan and received a SALTO review mission in April this year.
Japan is committed to enhancing global nuclear safety, while further improving its own nuclear regulatory framework.
Chair,
On TEPCO’s Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station (FDNPS), let me update the Board on the discharge of ALPS treated water. I sincerely appreciate the professional work of the Agency led by DG Grossi.
As always, the term “contaminated water” is not appropriate. It is the ALPS treated water that Japan discharges, and I listened carefully and noticed the positive support to, actual contribution to, and explicit confidence of the international community on, the ongoing efforts of the IAEA.
Since its commencement in summer last year, 8 batches of the treated water have been so far safely discharged as planned. The IAEA’s impartial, ongoing multi-layered robust monitoring with corroborative participation of analytical laboratories worldwide, including the ones from neighboring states, has consistently found no anomalies.
On its latest review mission report issued on July 18thth, the IAEA reaffirmed again the conclusions of its Comprehensive Report in July 2023, that the discharge will have a negligible radiological impact on people and the environment.
The IAEA remains committed to continuing its review and independent monitoring until the last drop of the water is safely discharged. The IAEA exercises its statutory mandate to provide for the application of international safety standards. The tireless efforts of the IAEA Secretariat are ample expression of the authority and independence of the Agency. What matters here is to preserve the legitimacy of the Agency.
Japan will continue the discharge in a transparent manner based on scientific evidence. Japan will engage even more closely and proactively with various stakeholders in the Asia Pacific region and beyond.
Chair,
I noticed previous mentioning on recent incidents at the FDNPS. I would like to make it clear that they were unrelated to the discharge of ALPS treated water. It was clearly stated in the relevant DG statement. TEPCO imposes measures to avoid recurrence. The Government of Japan continues to supervise TEPCO’s activities even more robustly and ensure transparency.
Chair,
From the perspective of Nuclear Safety, Japan appreciates the work of the DG and his team related to Ukraine and reiterates the importance of the DG’s Seven Pillars. We support the IAEA’s five concrete principles to help ensure nuclear safety and security at Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant. We will later elaborate further, under the relevant agenda item, our position on the precarious situations on nuclear safety and security in Ukraine as a result of Russian Federation’s aggression and actions.
With these comments, Japan takes note of the report contained in GOV/2024/40.
Thank you, Chair.