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May 23, 2011

United Nations Begins Japan Nuclear Probe 
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The United Nations has launched a fact-finding mission to investigate
nuclear safety in Japan in the aftermath of the disaster at the
Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power facility. A 20-member delegation will
visit Japan before issuing a report to a ministerial conference at the
end of June. James Lyons of the International Atomic Energy Agency is
among those taking part.

James Lyons: "First of all I want to express the Agency's (IAEA) sincere
sympathy to the Japanese people for the tragedy that they suffered as a
result of the tsunami. And we are heading there on a fact finding
mission and I am looking forward to learning a lot while there and then
we are going to provide a report to the member states when we get back."



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