UN atomic agency approves safety plan

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UN atomic agency approves safety plan

September 13, 2011 - 8:19PM

AFP

The UN atomic agency's board has approved a global safety "action plan" six months after Japan suffered the world's biggest nuclear accident in 25 years, diplomats said.

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)'s plan, weaker however than first proposed, encourages fresh assessments of nuclear plants and emergency measures, as well as voluntary "peer review" visits by foreign experts.

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Earlier drafts, however, had been more stringent, proposing, for example, that such visits be mandatory and that 10 per cent of the world's 440-odd nuclear plants face peer reviews in the next three years.

Diplomats pointed the figure notably at the US and China for watering down the proposals.

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