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IAEA team on Onagawa plant

TOKYO, Japan - Sujit Samaddar, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency's International Seismic Safety Center, speaks during a press conference in Tokyo on Aug. 10, 2012. He said an IAEA delegation, led by him, had found that the Onagawa nuclear power station in Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, was "remarkably undamaged" by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami, despite being the closest nuclear power plant to the epicenter.

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IAEA team inspection at Onagawa nuclear plant

ONAGAWA, Japan - Sujit Samaddar (C), head of the International Atomic Energy Agency's International Seismic Safety Center, answers reporters' questions in Onagawa, Miyagi Prefecture, on July 31, 2012. The 20-member IAEA delegation team started an inspection the previous day at the Onagawa nuclear power plant, which was relatively undamaged by the massive earthquake and tsunami that hit the area in March 2011. The turbine building for the No. 2 reactor and a levee at the plant can be seen in the back.

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IAEA team inspects Onagawa nuclear plant

ONAGAWA, Japan - Sujit Samaddar, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency's International Seismic Safety Center, speaks in Onagawa, Miyagi Prefecture, on July 30, 2012, before starting an inspection of the Onagawa nuclear power plant, which was relatively undamaged by the massive earthquake and tsunami that hit the area in March 2011.