After Japanese reactor accident, UN agency pledges to restore faith in nuclear power

14:53, 13 September 2011

NEW YORK. September 13. KAZINFORM The United Nations atomic energy agency today pledged to play a central role in restoring public faith in nuclear power after this year's disaster at Japan's Fukushima plant, which is projected to slow the growth in the use of such electricity generating reactors.

At the same time, UN International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA ) Director General Yukiya Amano reiterated previous concerns about possible Iranian activities related to the development of a nuclear payload for a missile, and the reported construction of a new uranium enrichment facility and light water reactor in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), the UN News Centre reports.

"It will take rapid and visible improvements in nuclear safety, not just good intentions, to restore public confidence in nuclear power," he told the IAEA Board of Governors in Vienna in a regular update on worldwide nuclear issues that devoted significant attention to the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station disaster. "The agency will play its central part with vigour."

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