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ANALYSIS: Japan elevates nuclear safety to...
The seawall under construction at Chubu Electric Power Co.'s Hamaoka nuclear power plant in Shizuoka Prefecture (Asahi Shimbun file photo)
Improvements in safety proposed by the Nuclear Regulation Authority could see Japan's nuclear plants acquire safeguards recommended by the International Atomic Energy Agency in ...
U.N. atom agency sees 'significant' nuclear safety...
Alexander Bychkov, Deputy Director General of Ithe nternational Atomic Energy Agency, makes an inspection at Monju fast reactor plant in Tsuruga, Fukui Prefecture, on June 12. (Asahi Shimbun file photo)
VIENNA -- Important progress has been made towards strengthening global nuclear safety after Japan's Fukushima accident last year, according to the United Nations atomic...
IAEA chief offers to backstop Japan's 'stress test' ...
Yukiya Amano, director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, talks about nuclear power safety to an audience of senior high school students in Matsumoto, Nagano Prefecture, on July 27. (Hajimu Takeda)
Yukiya Amano, director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, on July 28 offered to have his nuclear watchdog agency review the results of the "stress tests" that...
Fukushima accident raised to same level as Chernobyl
An aerial view of the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant (Provided by Air Photo Service)
Japan raised the severity rating of the crisis at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant on April 12 to the same level as the Chernobyl disaster, weeks after it was criticized ...
Comparing Fukushima to Chernobyl
Top: A photo taken Saturday of the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant following the Great East Japan Earthquake; Bottom: A 2004 photo of the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant. (Photos by Google)
The problems at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant have raised comparisons to Chernobyl, where the worst nuclear accident ever occurred 25 years ago.
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