UN Atomic Energy Agency to visit Fukushima to review progress in clean up

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Source: Gulf Today

VIENNA: The UN atomic agency said on Friday it is sending a team from October 14-21 to review Japan’s progress cleaning up areas around the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant.

The 16-person team, visiting at the request of Japan’s government, consists of international experts and International Atomic Energy Agency staff and follows an earlier visit in late 2011, it said.

“With the main purpose of evaluating the progress of ongoing remediation work in Japan and providing advice to address remediation challenges, the mission team will meet relevant governmental authorities, including the Ministry of the Environment,” the IAEA said in a statement.

From October 16-18 it will visit remediation sites in Fukushima prefecture and on the last day of the mission will submit a report to the Japanese government, which will be made public.


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[Divernan]

1. Everyone on that team should get extremely high hazardous duty pay.

One assumes they are all expert enough to protect themselves, but you couldn't pay me enough to set foot in "areas around the Fukushima nuclear plant". That said, I hope the visit will result in more dependable information than that provided by self-serving nuclear industry and political hacks.