Fukushima governor, NRA chief

Fukushima governor, NRA chief

TOKYO, Japan - Fukushima Gov. Yuhei Sato (R) and Shunichi Tanaka, chairman of the Nuclear Regulation Authority, bow as they meet in Tokyo on Aug. 28, 2013. The governor of the prefecture hosting the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant asked the NRA chief to improve the handling of the nuclear crisis at the power plant, as the NRA raised its assessment of the severity of a recent toxic water leak at the complex to level 3 on an eight-point international scale the same day.

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