Category: Best of the Web

Tags: IAEA, inspection, team, Nuclear, nuclear, disaster, Fukushima, Fukushima, city, workers, radiation, Tokyo, Japan, Tsunami, Earthquake, natural, disaster, contamination, radioactive, contamination

NHK: IAEA team inspects Fukushima nuclear plant A team from the International Atomic Energy Agency has inspected the troubled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant to see damage caused by the March 11th quake and tsunami. The 18 experts from Britain, France and other countries have been in Japan since Tuesday to investigate the accident at the plant. On Friday, the team, headed by Mike Weightman, first visited nuclear facilities at the Fukushima Daini plant, which is south of the Daiichi plant. The head of the Daiichi plant briefed the members on how a series of problems has developed and how the plant's operator has responded. The team later went to the Daiichi plant to check the buildings of the plant's Number one to Number 4 reactors. They were also told about an emergency diesel generator at the plant's Number 6 reactor, whose operations had been safely halted. The team plans to submit a report on its inspection to Japan's government on June 1st. Friday, May 27, 2011 19:45 +0900 (JST) Copyright NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation)

 Send to a friend