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U.N. nuclear agency sends new Fukushima expert mission but no word on the Fukushima UNHCR petition?

(Reuters) – The U.N. nuclear agency said on Friday it would send an international team of experts to Japan later this month to look into efforts to clean up affected areas around the crippled Fukushima atomic power plant.

Japan’s nuclear regulator earlier ordered the operator of Fukushima to draft in additional workers if needed to plug leaks of radioactive water from its tanks and report within a week on steps taken to fight the crisis.

The warning was the second in as many months issued to Tokyo Electric Power Co, or Tepco, after the company found a second escape of contaminated liquids that probably entered the Pacific Ocean

In Vienna, the U.N. International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said the October 14-21 mission would “review the implementation of remediation activities in areas affected by the accident … and provide advice to address associated challenges”.

It did not give details and an IAEA spokesperson was not immediately available for comment.

The 16-person mission of IAEA as well as other experts, a follow-up from one carried out in 2011, was sent at the request of Japan’s government (See 2011 link under the IAEA logo Arclight2011), the U.N. agency said in a statement.

In the world’s worst nuclear accident in a quarter of a century, reactor meltdowns at the Fukushima facility after an earthquake and tsunami in March 2011 sent radiation spewing over large areas, forcing more than 160,0000 people to flee.

[Arclight2011 notes : The UNHCR has not released any information about the petition for the children and adults left in the contaminated lands, refugees etc nor did it mention any health effects in children or adults in a specific country based way so far as i can see so far , The report does mention the rights of the child to good health and protection from pollution in a more general way, however, the report is listed here and I am studying it now.. feel free to crack on in case my battery dies.. [i live in a field with no connection to the nuclear powered grid].. heres the link  to the latest from the UNHCR September 27 2013 report>>>>

http://www.crin.org/resources/infodetail.asp?id=30140

All the information should be there.. Though i heard a rumour that a separate report has been done concerning the children of Fukushima and it will be released at the last minute or during some media excitment but this last comment is hearsay (not proven yet)  )

October 4, 2013 - Posted by arclight2011part2 | Uncategorized