Dec. 24 (Asia Today) -- South Korea's Unification Ministry said Tuesday that its latest monitoring for possible wastewater discharge from North Korea's uranium plant in Pyeongsan found no abnormalities in December.
The ministry said samples collected from seven monitoring sites in early December were analyzed for uranium and five heavy metals, with results showing no abnormalities.
It said uranium concentrations were within normal ranges at three monitoring points in Ganghwa, two sites near the estuaries of the Han and Imjin rivers and two points along the Incheon coastline.
The ministry added that levels of five heavy metals at the same sites were either below environmental and marine standards or not detected.
Concerns about possible discharge intensified after Jeong Seong-hak, described as a satellite image analysis expert, said in June that satellite images indicated radioactive wastewater from the Pyeongsan uranium plant flowed along the Yeongseong River and entered the Yellow Sea.
