NUCLEAR CONCERNS: Nuclear safety must be improved, says IAEA chief

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IAEA Director-General Yukiya Amano speaks at the Ministerial Conference on Nuclear Safety in Vienna on Monday - AP.

The head of the U.N. nuclear agency urged a worldwide rethink of safety measures to prevent new nuclear disasters, declaring on Monday that in the wake of the Fukushima catastrophe “business as usual is not an option.”

But Yuiya Amano, chief of the International Atomic Energy Agency, also acknowledged that improvements are only effective if countries apply them, in opening comments to the IAEA’s conference on nuclear safety.

While some countries at the 150-member IAEA’s meeting want any new safety regime to be mandatory, most prefer them to be voluntary. If the IAEA cannot enforce safety standards, those rules will be only as good as they are enforced by IAEA nations.

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