IAEA nuclear security conf to focus on Japanese nuclear disaster
VIENNA. June 20. KAZINFORM A nuclear security conference will open here on Monday. The forum will be held at the ministerial level upon the initiative of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to draw lessons from a nuclear disaster at the Fukushima-1 nuclear power plant that was triggered by the natural disasters. Director General of the Russian nuclear power state corporation Rosatom Sergei Kiriyenko will head the Russian delegation; Kazinform refers to Itar-Tass.
IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano initiated the conference. He believes that the agency brings together many countries, which have an indisputable authority in all issues related with the use of nuclear power and nuclear security, and, therefore, is the best floor to generalize the conclusions, which the world community should make from the Fukushima-1 nuclear disaster. The ministerial meeting will make part of a long-term process to upgrade the current system and to create a new comprehensive system of nuclear security with due account of the aftermaths of the Fukushima nuclear disaster.
The forum, which will last until the end of this week, will give an opportunity to all IAEA states to take the floor. The Rosatom chief is expected to spell out detailed initiatives, which the Russian president had made at the recent G-8 summit in France's Deauville. The Russian president called for the development of additional requirements to the construction of nuclear power plants in seismically dangerous zones and districts that are exposed to some natural calamities. Meanwhile, Russia believes that the countries, which possess peaceful atom technologies, should also agree on the general principles for the information exchange over the disasters.
The conference is expected to adopt a declaration, which confirms their determination to make nuclear security stronger in the world.
Kiriyenko intends to have working meetings with the IAEA general director and the heads of the delegations from the United States and India on the first day of the conference.