IAEA team to investigate Fukushima

The UN nuclear watchdog has sent a 20-member team to investigate the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi plant in Japan.

Head of the IAEA team, Michael Weightman, held a meeting with TEPCO spokesman, Junichi Matsumoto, ahead of visiting the defective plant. The cores of all three troubled reactors underwent meltdown in the early days. Damage will be examined by experts in a bid to learn from the accident and work to prevent a recurrence. The final report will be presented at an IAEA ministerial-level meeting to be held from the 20th of June.

Michael Weightman, head of IAEA Investigation Team, said, "I have no concerns. We have full cooperation and access to information. Whatever questions we've asked, they have answered. No I haven't done any analysis on that. We have just got here. We just started our discussions. We will come to our own views on the information that we seek and we will seek to learn these lessons on behalf of the world."

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