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United Nations Begins Japan Nuclear Probe

HeadlineMay 23, 2011

The United Nations has launched a fact-finding mission to investigate nuclear safety in Japan in the aftermath of the disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power facility. A 20-member delegation will visit Japan before issuing a report to a ministerial conference at the end of June. James Lyons of the International Atomic Energy Agency is among those taking part.

James Lyons: “First of all, I want to express the Agency’s (IAEA) sincere sympathy to the Japanese people for the tragedy that they’ve suffered as a result of the tsunami. And we’re there to do a fact-finding mission, and I’m looking forward to learning a lot while I’m there, and then we’re going to provide a report to the member states when we get back.”

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