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Wednesday, June 1, 2011

Japan, the United Nations: "underestimated tsunami risk in the management of nuclear power plants"

The reaction of Japan to 'incident in central Fukushima was "exemplary." But the authorities "have apparently underestimated" the risk of a tsunami in the design and operation of nuclear plants. This is the conclusion of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), already shown in a report handed to the government in Tokyo.

A committee of eighteen UN experts, led by Mike Weightman, according to which it is urgent that the authorities nipponiche put in place a new regulation that takes into account the risk of all natural disasters and is "periodically updated". To anticipate the summary of the report is the Japanese agency Kyodo.