International Atomic Energy Agency News

Experts to Visit Fukushima Plant to Check Water Release Plan

TOKYO (AP) — A team of experts from the International Atomic Energy Agency will visit Japan’s wrecked Fukushima nuclear power plant next week to review plans to begin releasing more than a million tons of treated radioactive water into the …

IAEA Seeks Japan Transparency in Release of Fukushima Water

TOKYO (AP) — Experts from the International Atomic Energy Agency asked Japan on Tuesday for full and detailed information about a plan to release treated but still radioactive water from the wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant into the ocean. The three-member …

Older Nuclear Plants Pose Safety Challenge: U.N. Report

Eighty percent of the world’s nuclear power plants are more than 20 years old, which could impact safety, a draft U.N. report says a year after Japan’s Fukushima disaster. Many operators have begun programs, or expressed their intention, to run …