UN nuclear agency chief: Missions to Japan to continue; information at start ...
VIENNA — The head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog says his agency only started receiving sufficient information on the accident at Japan’s Fukushima Dai-ichi plant after he met with Japan’s Prime Minister Naoto Kan.
International Atomic Energy Agency director Yukiya Amano said Monday that right after the earthquake and tsunami caused the accident, he had difficulty receiving enough information from Tokyo. He said the situation improved after a meeting with Kan.
A team of 12 IAEA experts recently visited Japan to assess the situation in what Amano said was the first of several fact-finding missions.
Amano said he hoped the world would be able to draw on lessons learned from the crippling of the Fukushima plant to help “enhance the safety of nuclear power.”
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