On January 7, Minister Yoichi Miyazawa of Japan\u2019s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) met with Director General Yukiya Amano of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), who was visiting Japan. <\/p>\n
The two agreed that Japan would accept a second visit by the IAEA\u2019s Operational Safety Review Team (OSART) to the Kashiwazaki Kariwa-6 and -7 Nuclear Power Plants (NPPs), as well as a third decommissioning review mission to the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station (NPS) in mid-February.<\/p>\n
In 2013, the IAEA sent two separate decommissioning review missions to the Fukushima Daiichi NPS. At an IAEA General Conference last autumn, Japan expressed its intention to continue to receive such missions. The previous OSART mission to the Kashiwazaki Kariwa NPS was in 2004. Japan will now coordinate with the IAEA on specific schedules and items toward the next actual visits.<\/p>\n
On the same day, Amano paid a courtesy visit to Japan\u2019s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. Speaking about decommissioning and measures for the treatment of contaminated water at the Fukushima Daiichi NPS, as well as the establishment of an international nuclear damage compensation system, the prime minister said that Japan respected the IAEA\u2019s roles and wanted to continue to cooperate closely with it. Amano responded that the IAEA would work together with Japan.<\/p>\n
On January 8, the IAEA director-general met with Minister Fumio Kishida of Japan\u2019s Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) at the ministry\u2019s offices in Tokyo. Kishida praised the leadership of Amano in his efforts to establish an international nuclear damage compensation system through the Convention on Supplementary Compensation (CSC) for Nuclear Damage. He said that Japan wanted to be energetic in aiding those efforts, confirming the country\u2019s commitment to cooperating with the IAEA in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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