U.N. nuclear agency to set up Fukushima office

The IAEA intends to open the office by the end of this year, he added

why so late? is it difficult to buy/build or find a rental office space in Fukushima now?

Who knows? Maybe it is an amakudari for Amano. There will be a time his appointment will come to an end.

This is politicians trying to keep their jobs. Nothing more.

Isn't it time for us to start using safer technologies instead of promoting ones that kill....?

reassuring the public it is safe to resume atomic operations ? ? ?

NO Kidding ! Nothing is SAFE ! Get rid of all that Atomic operations !

Well good luck with that.

The end of this year? Geez, ya'll take your time now. Wouldn't want to get here any earlier to monitor the situation would ya? More incompetence.

Is amakudari Amano going to man it himself? Or is he just comfortable being far away from Fukushima, just like NISA, Tepco management and J-gov?

How many IAEA scientists and engineers have already quit due to having professional integrity and morals?

Secret U.S. contingency plans that might have helped emergency teams trying to deal with the total power failure at the Fukushima No.1 nuclear power plant were sat on by Japan’s Nuclear Industry Safety Agency (NISA) because its officials didn't believe Japan would ever face such a situation.

Add to that, Japanese Communist Party Lower House member Yoshii Hidekatsu warned of these risks years ago. May 26, 2010, he said, "What would happen when the backup cooling system fails due to the loss of both external supply and in-house power generation must be examined," citing the examples of the massive tsunami including the Sanriku Coast in 1896.

NISA, METI, LDP ignored it.

http://www.jcp.or.jp/english/jps_2011/20110401-2_01.html

Hmmm... I wonder who's going to head it?

Simply to confirm that everything is A-OK!!

First, I think it is nuclear not atomic energy.

Next, "The government has struggled with public trust over the nuclear energy..." Ya think? Then, Amano says, "...the IAEA stands ready to cooperate...". What does that mean? Parrot government propoganda? See above.

propaganda

“We have told the Japanese government that the IAEA stands ready to cooperate,”

Sure, they are, mates. They stand ready to provide political cover for whatever inane and dangerous policies the Japanese government decides to inflict on its people. Pirates coming to police the bandits, nothing more or less.

haha. I clicked on this story knowing who and what the inane (apart from zichi, who writes excellent posts) comments were going to be. Sure I'm going to ge thumbed down, but it a shame that this forum is not populated by anybody greener than green and so far left wing that my keyboard is about to fall off my desk...

For them to do this they know something shady is going on... Japan is really covering this up.

The office might be there, but no staff will be...

the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to open an office, which will help share information on the crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi plant. The IAEA intends to open the office by the end of this year, he added.

This Office will open up in Fukushima = children 18 and under will receive free medical care in Fukushima. Neither one will happen most likely.

Great! They can put all of the politicians and their families there. After all there is no immediate risk to human health. PUT THEM ALL THERE!!

"By the end of this year"... hmmm... now where have I heard that phrase before? Perhaps they are hoping that the corium will have cooled down a little more by then.

We have told the Japanese government that the IAEA stands ready to cooperate

Of course they are always ready! They're pro-nuclear.

I wonder what ameneties were given to the IAEA personnel who oversaw the stress tests?

I, for one, although I barely know anything about nuclear power, would like to see some government or IAEA realease about the much-hyped stress tests, the factors involved, and the criteria for doling out the "合格" ("passed") mark for the reactors.