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Global nuclear power industry can’t do “business as usual” – UN chief

UN nuke chief: Japan crisis a ‘major challenge’, STRAITS TIMES 5 April 11VIENNA – JAPAN’S reactor crisis poses a major challenge with enormous implications for nuclear power, the head of the UN’s atomic watchdog said on Monday, while separately appearing to criticise the operator of the crippled complex.Yukiya Amano, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, also stressed that the global nuclear community cannot take a ‘business-as-usual approach.’ Lessons must be learned from the fact that the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant has been leaking radiation into the environment ever since it was hit March 11 by a massive tsunami, he said…….UN nuke chief: Japan crisis a ‘major challenge’

April 5, 2011 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | general