NUCLEAR SAFETY REPORT ISSUED BY JAPAN ON TOKAIMURA ACCIDENT
November 1st, 2009
BY JULIAN RYALL
TO mark one decade since the worst accident in the history of the nation's nuclear power industry, the Nuclear Safety Commission of Japan (NSC) has released a report in which it analyses the lessons learned in the 1999 Tokaimura incident and the efforts regulators need to take to ensure future safety in the industry.
The 44-page report has not been released in English and, according to the agency, is more designed to underline the steps that have been taken to make sure a similar accident does not occur again in the future rather than to make ...
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