The Board of Governors of International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) meets in Vienna tomorrow in an extraordinary session to discuss the nuclear emergency situation created in Japan after a strong earthquake and subsequent tsunami on 11 March. The director-general, Japan's Yukiya Amano, 35 states report to executive members of the IAEA on his recent visit to Japan.
According to sources close to the IAEA said the meeting will be only known object in more detail the situation on the ground in the area of the Fukushima nuclear power plant, radioactivity emanating due to the serious harm suffered and the measures that the nuclear agency the UN is out there.
The IAEA acknowledged on Sunday that in the last few hours there was a positive development in the effort to cool the six reactors at the plant and prevent further damage, but the plant is releasing radiation damaged and not discarded even greater risk. "There were positive developments in the last 24 hours, but the situation remains very serious," said the press today's science adviser Andrew Graham IAEA.
As Japan's government spokesman, Yukio Edan, have been detected radioactive iodine levels above those allowed in the milk of four places in the province of Fukushima and spinach in the neighboring province of Ibaraki. The authorities have also detected low levels of radioactive iodine in tap water in Tokyo and areas near the capital, but the government reiterated today that do not pose a health risk.
IAEA scientists have so far been extremely wary of making predictions about the evolution of Fukushima Daiichi, which particularly concerned about the reactor 3, as it uses as fuel a mixture of uranium and plutonium (MOX) highly polluting and dangerous. From Japan, on Sunday became clear that the notorious nuclear power plant will be dismantled when stable and will never return to work.
This accident, the worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl 25 years ago, has unleashed a wave of protests against nuclear power in several countries and many governments have begun to revise their plans and strategies in this field. 
According to sources close to the IAEA said the meeting will be only known object in more detail the situation on the ground in the area of the Fukushima nuclear power plant, radioactivity emanating due to the serious harm suffered and the measures that the nuclear agency the UN is out there.
The IAEA acknowledged on Sunday that in the last few hours there was a positive development in the effort to cool the six reactors at the plant and prevent further damage, but the plant is releasing radiation damaged and not discarded even greater risk. "There were positive developments in the last 24 hours, but the situation remains very serious," said the press today's science adviser Andrew Graham IAEA.
As Japan's government spokesman, Yukio Edan, have been detected radioactive iodine levels above those allowed in the milk of four places in the province of Fukushima and spinach in the neighboring province of Ibaraki. The authorities have also detected low levels of radioactive iodine in tap water in Tokyo and areas near the capital, but the government reiterated today that do not pose a health risk.
IAEA scientists have so far been extremely wary of making predictions about the evolution of Fukushima Daiichi, which particularly concerned about the reactor 3, as it uses as fuel a mixture of uranium and plutonium (MOX) highly polluting and dangerous. From Japan, on Sunday became clear that the notorious nuclear power plant will be dismantled when stable and will never return to work.
This accident, the worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl 25 years ago, has unleashed a wave of protests against nuclear power in several countries and many governments have begun to revise their plans and strategies in this field.
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