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Japan Underestimated Tsunami Hazard for Nuclear Sites, UN Expert Group Finds

NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–1 June 2011.  Experts from the United Nations atomic energy agency said today that Japan had underestimated potential tsunami hazards to its nuclear power plants before the March earthquake and tsunami that damaged the Fukushima Daiichi facility.

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The team of international nuclear safety experts, from 12 countries, said in a preliminary assessment of the safety issues that “the tsunami hazard for several sites was underestimated,” according to a press statementof the United Nations…

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