IAEA to take lead role in securing safer nuclear future

IAEA to take lead role in securing safer nuclear future

NAGANO, Japan - International Atomic Energy Agency chief Yukiya Amano (R) delivers a keynote address at the U.N. Conference on Disarmament Issues which opened July 27, 2011, in Matsumoto, Nagano Prefecture. Amano said the atomic watchdog will play a ''lead role'' in creating a safer nuclear future, as global use of nuclear energy will likely continue for decades despite the accident at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi power plant.

  • Product Code
  • ILEA001161261
  • Registered date
  • 2011/7/27 00:00:00
  • Credit
  • Kyodo / Kyodo News Images
  • Media source
  • 2011 Kyodo News
  • Media size
  • 1302 × 1889 pixel
  • Resolution
  • 240 dpi
  • Deployment size
  • 487.88(KB)*
  • Special instruction

*File size when opened in Photoshop, etc.

Similar Images & Videos
    NRA chief inspects Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant

    NRA chief inspects Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant

    FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Shunichi Tanaka (R, front), chairman of the Nuclear Regulation Authority, walks by radioactive water tanks during his inspection at Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, damaged by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami, in Okuma Town, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, on Dec. 12, 2014. (Pool photo)
      Building R&D center toward Fukushima plant decommission

      Building R&D center toward Fukushima plant decommission

      NARAHA, Japan - Japan Atomic Energy Agency holds a groundbreaking ceremony in Naraha town, Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on Sept. 26, 2014, for a research and development center toward decommissioning Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant damaged by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster.
        Fukushima nuclear plant chief feared catastrophe for eastern Japan

        Fukushima nuclear plant chief feared catastrophe for eastern Japan

        TOKYO, Japan - Pool photo taken Nov. 12, 2011, shows Masao Yoshida, chief of the disaster-struck Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant of Tokyo Electric Power Co., speaking to reporters at the plant in Fukushima Prefecture. According to government documents obtained by Kyodo News on Aug. 30, 2014, Yoshida said in testimony before his death that he had feared catastrophic damage to eastern Japan while he was struggling to contain the crisis in March 2011. The government will release his 400-page testimony in September.
          Japan nuclear plant clears safety hurdle toward restarting

          Japan nuclear plant clears safety hurdle toward restarting

          TOKYO, Japan - Shunichi Tanaka, chairman of the Nuclear Regulation Authority, speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on July 16, 2014, after the NRA approved a draft report required to resume the operations of two reactors at Kyushu Electric Power Co.'s Sendai plant in Kagoshima Prefecture. The reactors are expected to become the first nuclear facility to restart under new safety standards introduced following the 2011 Fukushima nuclear crisis.
            Fuel rods removed at Genkai nuclear plant

            Fuel rods removed at Genkai nuclear plant

            TOKYO, Japan - Work is underway to remove fuel rods from the No. 3 reactor at Kyushu Electric Power Co.'s Genkai nuclear power plant in Genkai Town, Saga Prefecture, in March 2013. Japan did not include 640kg of unused plutonium in its annual report to the International Atomic Energy Agency in 2012 and 2013. The unreported plutonium is part of the MOX fuel which was loaded to the No. 3 reactor in March 2011 during its regular checkup but was removed unused in March 2013 as the reactor has remained idle since the Fukushima nuclear crisis.
              Fukushima Daiichi plant

              Fukushima Daiichi plant

              OKUMA, Japan - A March 1, 2013 photo shows workers at the No. 4 (R) and No. 3 (L back) reactors of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station in Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan. Tokyo Electric Power Co. showed work to decommission the plant ahead of the second anniversary of the March 11, 2011, Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami that triggered the nuclear crisis. (Pool photo)
                IAEA chief in Japan

                IAEA chief in Japan

                TOKYO, Japan - International Atomic Energy Agency Director General Yukiya Amano speaks during a press conference in Tokyo on Jan. 13, 2013.
                  IAEA conference

                  IAEA conference

                  VIENNA, Austria - International Atomic Energy Agency Director General Yukiya Amano speaks as the U.N. nuclear watchdog's annual conference begins in Vienna on Sept. 17, 2012.
                    Japan reports failure to respond to IAEA advice

                    Japan reports failure to respond to IAEA advice

                    VIENNA, Austria - Shinichi Kuroki, a senior official of the Japanese government's nuclear regulatory body, the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency, attends a meeting of parties to the Convention on Nuclear Safety at the IAEA headquarters in Vienna on Aug. 27, 2012. In its report to the meeting, Japan admitted its failure to sufficiently respond to advice provided by the International Atomic Energy Agency before the March 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant disaster.
                      IAEA team inspection at Onagawa nuclear plant

                      IAEA team inspection at Onagawa nuclear plant

                      ONAGAWA, Japan - Members of a delegation of the International Atomic Energy Agency examine a levee at the Onagawa nuclear power plant in Onagawa, Miyagi Prefecture, on July 31, 2012. The 20-member delegation started an inspection the previous day at the plant, which was relatively undamaged by the massive earthquake and tsunami that hit the area in March 2011.