IAEA chief to visit crippled Fukushima Daiichi plant Mon.
Jul. 22, 2011
Yukiya Amano, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, said Thursday he plans to visit the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in northeastern Japan next Monday to better grasp the situation.
Amano disclosed his plan when he met with Kyodo News and other Japanese media outlets. Amano, who will be visiting the nuclear plant for the first time, said he will meet with staffers including Masao Yoshida, chief of the plant run by Tokyo Electric Power Co., and that he hopes to ''get a feeling of the site by visiting there.''
Amano will also visit the ''J Village,'' a soccer training center composed of more than 10 fields now used by people responsible for containing the crisis at the plant, triggered by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.
Amano will leave Vienna, where the IAEA is based, on Saturday and will stay in Japan for about a week. He is working out details to also meet with Prime Minister Naoto Kan, Economy, Trade and Industry Ministry Banri Kaieda, and Goshi Hosono, state minister in charge of handling the nuclear accident, during his stay.
Amano said he saw a ''considerable progress overall'' when he commented on the series of developments toward bringing the nuclear accident under control.
He also said Japan's goal of realizing a ''cold shutdown'' of the crippled nuclear reactors by January ''is fully achievable.''
(Distributed by Kyodo News on July 21, 2011)
Amano disclosed his plan when he met with Kyodo News and other Japanese media outlets. Amano, who will be visiting the nuclear plant for the first time, said he will meet with staffers including Masao Yoshida, chief of the plant run by Tokyo Electric Power Co., and that he hopes to ''get a feeling of the site by visiting there.''
Amano will also visit the ''J Village,'' a soccer training center composed of more than 10 fields now used by people responsible for containing the crisis at the plant, triggered by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.
Amano will leave Vienna, where the IAEA is based, on Saturday and will stay in Japan for about a week. He is working out details to also meet with Prime Minister Naoto Kan, Economy, Trade and Industry Ministry Banri Kaieda, and Goshi Hosono, state minister in charge of handling the nuclear accident, during his stay.
Amano said he saw a ''considerable progress overall'' when he commented on the series of developments toward bringing the nuclear accident under control.
He also said Japan's goal of realizing a ''cold shutdown'' of the crippled nuclear reactors by January ''is fully achievable.''
(Distributed by Kyodo News on July 21, 2011)
