Seoul: In an effort to allay concerns regarding Japan's plan to release treated radioactive water from its tsunami-damaged Fukushima plant, the head of the United Nations' nuclear watchdog will meet with South Korea's foreign minister and a top nuclear safety official on Saturday.

The International Atomic Energy Agency's (IAEA) director general, Rafael Grossi, concluded a trip to Japan on Friday and arrived in South Korea. It was during this trip that the watchdog authorised the plan to discharge wastewater from the Fukushima nuclear facility into the ocean.

Protesters greeted him upon his arrival at Seoul's Gimpo Airport, according to local media.

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Grossi hinted at his statement from an interview with Reuters the day before, telling news agency Yonhap on Saturday that no expert behind the IAEA's Fukushima report disagreed with the report's content.

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Prior to that, Grossi stated that he wanted to meet with the opposition party in South Korea that had opposed the discharge plan during a press conference on Friday in Japan.

The government of South Korea declared on Friday that it respected the IAEA's findings and that, according to its own analysis, the release won't have "any meaningful impact" on the country's waters.

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As it seeks to strengthen ties with Tokyo, the administration of President Yoo Suk Yeol has straddled a fine line in its response to Japan's discharge proposal. South Koreans, however, are outraged and concerned about the plan, which has led some consumers to stock up on sea salt.

Despite South Korea's approval of the plan, there would still be a ban on food and seafood from the Fukushima region.
Lee Jae-myung, the leader of the opposition Democratic Party, has also argued that the government ought to make an effort to thwart the plan and take the matter before the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea.