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DPA / The Hindu.
File Photo of Fukushima No.1 power plant of Tokyo Electric Power co at Fukushima prefecture - AP.
Efforts to patch up global nuclear safety guidelines in the wake of the Fukushima disaster are being hampered by a lack of international political will, diplomats said ahead of next week’s Vienna International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) conference on the accident in Japan.
Shortly after an earthquake and tsunami led to a nuclear meltdown at the Japanese power plant in March, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) chief Yukiya Amano started looking for ways to reassure the global public about the safety of nuclear energy and initiated the ministerial conference that opens Monday.
In the meantime, Germany -- Euorope’s largest economy -- has decided to abandon nuclear power by 2022, and last week Italy voted in a referendum in favour of abandoning nuclear.
Although the draft final statement contains general proposals to strengthen existing safety rules and mechanisms, it is short on actual commitments.
“I think this will be more a photo-opportunity than a substantive conference,” one Arab diplomat said.
01) IAEA is the club of sellers and buyers, who simultaneously exclude all others to join this exclusive club in the name of prevention of proliferation!
02) The sellers of Nuclear Power Technologies and / or Raw Materials would not insist on safety, but they themselves are slowly exiting this arena!
03) The buyer counties, which are mostly the developing ones, which are also in a hurry to catch up with the lost economic growth, prefer overlooking the "Safety" in favour of the rapid growth!!
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