Recovery from Great East Japan Earthquake

　The Ministry of Foreign Affairs hosted a briefing session with relevant ministries and organizations and gave explanations on the recent updates regarding TEPCO’s Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station to the diplomatic missions on September 10th.

　The issues that were covered in the session are listed below and the documents, brochures and a video clip used or provided in the session are available in the link enlisted under each item. As for the concrete information provided in the session, please refer to these items.

• Current Status of countermeasures implementation for contaminated water issues ((i) Overview of the countermeasures, (ii) Pumping up groundwater by sub-drain system, (iii) Additional installation of multi-nuclide removal equipment, (iv) Land-side impermeable walls (frozen soil method), (v) Measures for freezing the connection area of the trench and the building) ) (METI)
  METI’s Document 1 (PDF)
• Updates on decommissioning of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station ((i) Current status of the decommissioning process (METI), (ii) Fuel removal from Unit 4 (TEPCO), (iii) Removal of Unit 1 building temporary cover (TEPCO), (iv) Latest evaluation of Unit 3’s fuel melting (TEPCO), (v) Improvements in work environment (TEPCO))
  METI’s Document 2 (PDF)　TEPCO’s Document (PDF)　TEPCO’s video clip
• Enhancement of the implementation system for decommissioning ((i) Overview of strengthened governmental organization (METI), (ii) Introduction of Nuclear Damage Compensation and Decommissioning Facilitation Corporation (NDF), (iii) Introduction of International Collaborative Research Center on Decommissioning (MEXT))
  METI’s Document 3(PDF)　NDF’s Document (PDF)　MEXT’s Document (PDF)
• Results of sea area monitoring and recent trend (NRA)
  NRA’s Document 1 (PDF)　NRA’s Document 2 (PDF)　NRA’s Document 3 (PDF)
• Progress on decontamination and interim storage facility (MOE)
  MOE’s Document (PDF)
• Field observation tour arrangement for foreign missions (TEPCO, MOFA)
  TEPCO’s Field Observation Tour Guide 1 (PDF)
  TEPCO’s Field Observation Tour Guide 2 (PDF)
  Fukushima Prefecture’s Brochure 1 (PDF)　Fukushima Prefecture’s Brochure 2 (PDF)