Japan gov't, nuclear commission at odds

Japan gov't, nuclear commission at odds

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan (R) attends a meeting of a House of Representatives ad hoc committee on post-disaster restoration at the Diet building in Tokyo on May 23, 2011. On the front left is Haruki Madarame, chairman of the Nuclear Safety Commission of Japan. The government and the commission have been at odds over why the injection of seawater into the troubled No. 1 reactor at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant was temporarily suspended a day after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.

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