Last March three reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear
plant in Japan reached meltdown after it became compromised following the 9.0
earthquake and the subsequent tsunami which hit Japan, the nuclear meltdown became the worse since Chernobyl. Following the incident, the area was evacuated and still remains cordoned off; an exclusion zone of 19-kilometers is in place and there were fears over the safety of food and water.
A year on, the UN Atomic Agency has published a report detailing the new measures taken in Japan to improve nuclear safety.
A team of eight from the UN International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) visited Japan earlier this year to carry out the review and were there at the invitation of the Japanese Government. During the visit, the team visited Tokyo to meet with officials and visited the Ohi Nuclear Power Station to see how the compliance with nuclear safety is being monitored.
The team from the IAEA made the good practises clear in its report and also highlighted improvements which could be made; the IAEA stated that Japan's compliance with the IAEA safety standard was “generally consistent”.
Team leader, the Director of the IAEA’s Nuclear Installation Safety Division, James Lyons, said:
“I hope nuclear regulators around the world use this report as a tool to evaluate their own safety assessment processes."
He added:
“We must learn the lessons of the Fukushima Daiichi accident so we can prevent a repeat of those terrible events a year ago."
A year on, the UN Atomic Agency has published a report detailing the new measures taken in Japan to improve nuclear safety.
A team of eight from the UN International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) visited Japan earlier this year to carry out the review and were there at the invitation of the Japanese Government. During the visit, the team visited Tokyo to meet with officials and visited the Ohi Nuclear Power Station to see how the compliance with nuclear safety is being monitored.
The team from the IAEA made the good practises clear in its report and also highlighted improvements which could be made; the IAEA stated that Japan's compliance with the IAEA safety standard was “generally consistent”.
Team leader, the Director of the IAEA’s Nuclear Installation Safety Division, James Lyons, said:
“I hope nuclear regulators around the world use this report as a tool to evaluate their own safety assessment processes."
He added:
“We must learn the lessons of the Fukushima Daiichi accident so we can prevent a repeat of those terrible events a year ago."
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