IAEA hopes to review Japanese nuclear stress tests
Sunday times - 28 July, 2011 14:20
Japan's two-step nuclear stress tests are beginning as government and authorities seek to bring back nuclear power supply.
Yukiya Amano, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said that a world viewpoint would help to increase the credibility of the so-called stress tests.
Japan modelled the stress tests on its nuclear reactors after a atomic safety review conducted by the European Union.
Unlike those of the European Union, Japan's stress tests are a precondition for the restart of nuclear reactors.
"It is up to each country" to decide whether or not to restart reactors, Amano was quoted by Kyodo as saying.
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