On Oct. 21 the International Atomic Energy Agency¡¯s Expert Remediation Mission to Japan submitted their preliminary findings based on their visit to Tokyo and Fukushima over the previous seven days.
Remediation is a very important area of the IAEA¡¯s work, and ¡°aims to reduce the radiation exposure from contamination of land areas or other contaminated media, such as surface ¡ª or groundwater.¡± In line with this role, the IAEA were requested to inspect Japan¡¯s decontamination efforts after the Fukushima No. 1 disaster. This is in fact their second visit, a followup to an October 2011 mission.
Reading the IAEA¡¯s findings, and contrasting them with the reality in Fukushima, one is left wondering whether the IAEA mission got lost in a Potemkin village during their trip.
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