EU-Japan meeting on the marine environment after Fukushima

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Event date:

03/10/2011 - 18:00

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3 October 2011
Rue Joseph II, 99, 1000 Brussels (Room 00/53)

The objective of the meeting is to assess whether fish imported in the EU from the Pacific region could be contaminated with radioactive isotopes following the accident at Fukushima.

10.00		Welcome and Introductions	Stefaan Depypere (DG-MARE)
10.20	MEASUREMENTS	Radioactivity in the Pacific presentation	Pavel.Povinec (University of Bratislava)
10.50		Japanese sea area monitoring presentation	Masanao Nakano (Japan Atomic Energy Agency)
11.10		To Secure the Safety of Fishery Products presentation	Joji Morishita(Fisheries Agency of Japan, MAFF)
11.35		COFFEE
11.55		Results of sampling of seafood imports presentation	Frans Verstraete (DG SANCO)
12.05	ANALYSIS	ocean circulation calculated by global high-resolution Mercator in the North Pacific Ocean; animation and presentation	Corine Derval (Mercator Ocean)
12.25		Japanese simulations of radioactivity concentrations presentation	Masanao Nakano (Japan Atomic Energy Agency)
12.45		IRSN estimation of the source term and rate of seawater renewal, Hydrodynamic modelling of dispersion (calculations and matching with measurements), Sediment data presentation	Bruno Fievet (IRSN)
13.05		LUNCH
14.10		Modelling the Dispersion of Radioelements from the Fukushima Power Plant into the Sea presentation	Patrick Marsaleix, University of Toulouse
14.30		Assessing the propagation of Fukushima radionuclides in the marine food web and tuna stocks	Patrick Lehodey, Inna Senina, Beatriz Calmettes and Philippe Gaspar (CLS)
15.00		COFFEE
15.15	ESTIMATE OF RISK	Joint statement by US agencies, FDA, EPA and NOAA	Stephane Vrignaud (NOAA)
15.20		Does the EU need to continue monitoring imports of marine products from the Pacific?	Discussion. Participants to deliver recommendation
16.00	WAY FORWARD	Communication of measurements – formats and protocols	Continuing collaboration after the meeting
		Future measurements	Are any measurements missing?
		Future analysis	What further analysis is planned?
17.00		Close

PARTICIPANTS

ABOUSAHL	Said	European Commission DG JRC
BATES	Richard	European Commission DG MARE
BETTI	Maria	International Atomic Energy Agency
CHARMASSON	Sabine	Institut de Radioprotection et de Sûreté Nucléaire (IRSN)
DEPYPERE	Stefaan	European Commission DG MARE
DERVAL	Corinne	Mercator
FIEVET	Bruno	Institut de Radioprotection et de Sûreté Nucléaire (IRSN)
GASPAR	Philippe	CLS: Collecte Localisation Satellites
JANSSENS	Augustin	European Commission DG ENER
JEANJEAN	Hervé	European Commission DG ENTR
KOMAI	Wataru	Japan mission to EU
MARASALEIX	Patrick	University of Toulouse
MELE	Renato	European Commission DG DEVCO
MORISHITA	Joji	Japanese Fisheries Agency
NAKANO	Masanao	Japan Atomic Energy Agency
POVINEC	Pavel	University of Bratislava
SEMBA	Hideshi	Japanese mission to EU
SHEPHERD	Iain	European Commission DG MARE
TOMINAGA	Haruo	Japanese Fisheries Agency
ULSESa	Caroline	University of Toulouse
VERSTRAETE	Frans	European Commission DG SANCO
VRIGNAUD	Stephane	United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
YODA	Gaku	Japanese mission to EU