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U.N. Watchdog Tentatively Backs Japan’s Nuclear Stress Tests
A United Nations fact-finding mission on Tuesday tentatively supported new stress tests devised to determine whether Japan’s nuclear plants can withstand another emergency, throwing its weight behind a government push to restart reactors idled in the wake of the disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi plant after an earthquake and tsunami in March.
Experts from the International Atomic Energy Agency, which reports to the United Nations and is based in Vienna, were in Japan at the request of the government to review stress tests ordered by the country’s nuclear regulator on reactors across the nation.
full: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/01/world/asia/united-nations-tentatively-backs-japans-nuclear-stress-tests.html
