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Fri, 05/27/2011 - 19:05
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IAEA expert team inspects crisis-hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant
TOKYO, May 27 Kyodo - A group of experts from the International Atomic Energy Agency on a fact-finding mission into Japan's worst nuclear accident inspected on Friday the crippled Fukushima Daiichi power plant in northeastern Japan.
An official of the plant operator said that the IAEA team checked how the tsunami that followed the March 11 massive earthquake damaged the plant, and looked from outside the buildings of the troubled Nos. 1 to 4 units, which lost their key functions to keep the nuclear fuels inside cool in the wake of the disaster.
Because of the quake and tsunami, believed to have been more than 14 meters high, the plant did not only lose its external power supply but also saw its emergency diesel generators for the Nos. 1 to 6 reactors flooded with water except for one.
The official at the Tokyo Electric Power Co. said that the IAEA team examined the surviving diesel generator, which helped the Nos. 5 and 6 reactors to achieve a stable state of ''cold shutdown.''
The IAEA team, led by Mike Weightman, the head of Britain's Nuclear Regulation Office, are scheduled to deliver their findings at a ministerial meeting on nuclear safety to be hosted by the IAEA from June 20 to 24 in Vienna.
A summary of the team's draft report is expected to be handed to the Japanese government on Wednesday, a day before the team members leave Japan.
An official of the plant operator said that the IAEA team checked how the tsunami that followed the March 11 massive earthquake damaged the plant, and looked from outside the buildings of the troubled Nos. 1 to 4 units, which lost their key functions to keep the nuclear fuels inside cool in the wake of the disaster.
Because of the quake and tsunami, believed to have been more than 14 meters high, the plant did not only lose its external power supply but also saw its emergency diesel generators for the Nos. 1 to 6 reactors flooded with water except for one.
The official at the Tokyo Electric Power Co. said that the IAEA team examined the surviving diesel generator, which helped the Nos. 5 and 6 reactors to achieve a stable state of ''cold shutdown.''
The IAEA team, led by Mike Weightman, the head of Britain's Nuclear Regulation Office, are scheduled to deliver their findings at a ministerial meeting on nuclear safety to be hosted by the IAEA from June 20 to 24 in Vienna.
A summary of the team's draft report is expected to be handed to the Japanese government on Wednesday, a day before the team members leave Japan.
