The International Atomic Energy Agency(IAEA) will include South Korea and China on a team to evaluate the release of treated but still radioactive water from the wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant.  

Lydie Evrard, IAEA Deputy Director General and head of the Department of Nuclear Safety and Security, issued the position in an online press conference in Tokyo on Thursday after visiting the Fukushima Daiichi plant. 

Evrard said that the IAEA will send an eleven-member team of experts to Japan in December for a review of the planned release.  

She added that the team will have members from multiple countries including South Korea. 

A three-member IAEA team led by Evrard made a three-day visit to Japan to prepare for years of monitoring by the IAEA.