U.N. mulls excluding nuclear accidents from disaster prevention plan
Source: Kyodo
The United Nations is considering excluding measures to prevent a nuclear accident caused by earthquake and tsunami from a new framework on disaster risk reduction expected to be adopted at the next world conference in 2015, U.N. sources said Tuesday.
A Japanese government official involved in drafting the new framework, which will be discussed at the U.N.-sponsored World Conference on Disaster Reduction in March 2015 in Sendai, northeastern Japan, said manmade disasters should be treated separately from natural calamities.
But a member of nongovernmental organization criticized such a move, saying the world body is avoiding the issue of nuclear disasters out of concern that antinuclear activists could exploit the discussion.
The international conference to be held in the Japanese city devastated by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami, which triggered the Fukushima nuclear crisis, will focus on the new action plan, which will replace the Hyogo Framework for Action 2005-2015.
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