Japan Must Decide If Tepco Was Slow to Flood Plant, UN Says
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Japan must determine whether Tokyo Electric Power Co. waited too long to begin pumping seawater into stricken reactors at the Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear plant in the hours after the March 11 earthquake, the leader of a United Nations investigative panel said.
The International Atomic Energy Agency chose not to assess the timing of power company’s decision to inject water to cool reactors, said Mike Weightman, the U.K. nuclear inspector who led the UN mission that investigated the meltdown. An independent Japanese commission will have to decide whether correct procedures were followed, he said in Vienna yesterday.