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21 Février 2012
February 21, 2012
Experts criticize Nuclear Safety Agency
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/20120221_11.html
Japan's nuclear safety agency has been criticized by its own panel of experts for rushing to approve stress tests for halted nuclear reactors.
The Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency last week gave its first nod of approval for the test results on 2 reactors at the Ohi nuclear plant in western Japan.
The agency reached the conclusion after cutting off debate by the panel of experts days earlier.
At the panel's meeting on Monday, Professor Emeritus Hiromitsu Ino of the University of Tokyo said discussions hadn't been exhausted, and he feels deceived.
Masashi Goto, a lecturer at the Shibaura Institute of Technology, said the panel's job is to fully review plant safety to prevent another nuclear accident.
Goto said he cannot understand why the agency was rushing to reach a conclusion.
An agency official pointed out that the experts' panel had met 8 times since last November. He said the agency thought conditions were met to endorse the results at the Ohi nuclear plant.
Having a stress test approved is a key step for restarting the country's nuclear reactors. Most of them were halted for regular inspections after the March 11th disaster.
Tuesday, February 21, 2012 10:17 +0900 (JST)
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