IAEA: Japan will overcome nuclear crisis

Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Yukiya Amano said he has no doubt that nuclear crisis in Japan will be effectively overcome.
Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Yukiya Amano said he has no doubt that nuclear crisis in Japan will be effectively overcome.

At a special meeting with 35 members of IAEA board of governors in Vienna on March 21, Amano said that the agency is doing everything in its power, along with other countries and international organisations, to help Japan end the crisis and to ensure that the loss would be at the lowest level.

IAEA Director General said that crisis at the Fukushima No 1 nuclear power plant remains serious and unresolved.

He underlined that Japan is in difficult situation but the nation could believe in strong support of international community, both in spirit and materials, to overcome these challenges.
The Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Organisation’s national data centre under the Vietnamese Institute of Atomic Energy reported that radioactive clouds would reach the northeastern region of the Philippines on March 22, but it is not likely to affect Vietnam./.

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