UN Nuclear Agency to Send Team of Experts to Japan to Help in Reactor Crisis

NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–15 March 2011 – The United Nations agency that coordinates global nuclear safety is sending an environmental monitoring team to Japan after the partial meltdown at reactors there, as its chief said today the situation differed from the world’s worst nuclear accident at Chernobyl 25 years ago.

“I continue to think that Chernobyl and these Fukushima reactors are different,” International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Yukiya Amano told a news briefing…