福島沖調査、中国が初参加　水揚げされた魚分析へ―ＩＡＥＡ

　国際原子力機関（ＩＡＥＡ）は１９日、東京電力福島第１原発の処理水放出を受けた海洋調査の一環で、福島県いわき市の久之浜漁港に水揚げされた魚を試料として採取した。魚に含まれる放射性物質の濃度をＩＡＥＡと日本、中国、韓国、カナダの分析機関が測定。ＩＡＥＡが結果を比較し、日本が分析した結果の信頼性を評価する。海洋放出に猛反発する中国が福島沖の調査に参加するのは初めて。
　同港を訪れたのは、中国の分析機関の専門家２人を含む９人。調査団は水揚げされたタイやフグなど計６種類の魚を試料として採取した。試料は加工された後、国内外計１１カ所の機関で分析される。（2023/10/19-11:12）

The International Atomic Energy Agency on Thursday collected for radiation examination fish unloaded at a port in the northeastern Japan prefecture of Fukushima, with China joining such testing for the first time.
   The IAEA and organizations from Japan, China, South Korea and Canada will gauge the concentration levels of radioactive substances in the sampled fish, after Japan started in August to release treated water containing tritium, a radioactive material, from the meltdown-hit Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power station into the ocean.
   The IAEA will compare the results of the tests to check whether and how much the outcome of the Japanese test is trustworthy.
   It is the first time for China, a strong opponent of the water release into the ocean, to take part in tests for radioactive substances in seawater off Fukushima or fish caught off the coast of the prefecture, home to the nuclear plant hit hard by the March 2011 tsunami, since the water discharge began.
   A nine-member team, including two experts from China, sampled six species of fish, including sea bream and puffer fish, at Hisanohama port in the Fukushima city of Iwaki. The fish will be processed for testing to be conducted at 11 institutions in and outside Japan.