ＩＡＥＡ調査団の来日延期　原発処理水検証、オミクロン株で

　経済産業省は６日、東京電力福島第１原発から出る放射性物質トリチウムを含む処理水の海洋放出計画をめぐり、国際原子力機関（ＩＡＥＡ）が安全性の検証作業の一環として今月に予定していた調査団の派遣が延期になったと発表した。新型コロナウイルスの新たな変異株「オミクロン株」の感染拡大を受け、政府が外国人の入国を原則停止したことに伴う措置。
　当初は１２月中旬に来日予定だった。１２月は代わりにオンライン形式で会合を開き、調査団の来日は２０２２年１月以降で再調整する。（2021/12/06-12:10）

The International Atomic Energy Agency has postponed sending a task force to Japan to check the safety of the planned release into the sea of treated water containing radioactive tritium, the Japanese industry ministry said Monday.
   The postponement came after Japan banned new entries by foreigners in principle amid the spread of the new omicron variant of the novel coronavirus.
   The task force was slated to make the trip in mid-December as part of the IAEA's work to check the safety of the Japanese government's plan to release into the ocean the treated water from Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc.'s disaster-crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant in northeastern Japan.
   The IAEA will instead hold an online meeting this month. It plans to reschedule the task force's visit to Japan to January next year or later.
   In addition to IAEA officials, experts from 11 countries including the United States, China, South Korea and France were slated to travel to Japan as part of the task force to visit the Fukushima No. 1 plant.