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Amano: IAEA to boost credibility of Fukushima clean-up
Sep 26, 2011, 11:05 GMT
Vienna - International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) nuclear decontamination experts are set to travel to Japan in October to lend credibility to the country's clean-up efforts around the leaking Fukushima reactors, IAEA chief Yukiya Amano said Monday in Vienna.
'Japan does not have that much experience in decontamination,' Amano told reporters.
The country has never had to deal with clean-up efforts of that scale, he said. 'Even though they have some ideas, we can provide confidence and credibility.'
He said the international community was focussed on the status of the damaged reactors. 'But for the local people the most important is what happens with their house or rice field.'
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