TOKYO, Aug. 28 -- Nuclear Regulation Authority issued the following news release:
At the request of the Government of Japan (GOJ), the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has organized Interlaboratory Comparisons (ILCs) * since 2014 to assist the GOJ. In these ILCs, marine samples in the vicinity of the TEPCO's Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station (FDNPS) are collected, and the IAEA, third-party laboratories, and Japanese analytical laboratories analyze the samples individually, and the IAEA intercompares and evaluates the analytical results. This mission is a part of the project which was initiated following recommendations made on Sea Area Monitoring in the report** by the IAEA in 2013, which is related to the decommissioning of...