Japan, France agree to boost efforts on nuclear safety
TOKYO —
Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda and French Prime Minister Francois Fillon on Sunday released a joint communique on nuclear safety.
The two leaders held a news conference at which they said the two countries would work together on nuclear issues, set up a joint team of experts to deal with future nuclear accidents and strengthen international standards for nuclear safety, NTV reported.
Noda also said that the two countries will set up a committee to study cooperation on the use of nuclear energy.
On Saturday, Fillon visited the tsunami-ravaged Japanese port city of Ishinomaki and said that France will continue to provide moral, technical and material support to the recovery effort when necessary.
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KuroShadow
...set up a committee to study cooperation on the use of nuclear energy. An indication that they have little intention to reduce or eliminate nuclear energy. When will we ever learn. Should the words 'nuclear' and 'safety' belong in the same sentence?
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Elbuda Mexicano
Kuroshadow, you took the words right out of my mouth! When, oh when will we ever learn that nuclear energy for Japan is just way too risky??!!!??!!!
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Cricky
This is great, a Monty Python story to start the day, Fantastic. Really build more, what's the worst that could happen radioactive rain/food....nahh never happen. Waiting for the 3 eyed baby's to start being born, but that will have nothing to do with TEPCO.
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NetNinja
Japan won't learn. This current administartion's relationship with TEPCO will sink this country.
Japanese are the architects of their own demise. For us, the readers, we simply have good seats. It's going to be a blast when it happens again. Just don't get too close to the show.
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warnerbro
They should have taken a tour of Kashiwa while they were at it.
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ssway
Boost efforts on nuclear safety? They have suffered 3 full meltdowns (throughs) and the radiation is still spewing from the Fukushima Daiichi site. The Japanese government is deceiving the public about the extent of the contamination spread throughout Japan and the spread to the food. For Japan to say they want to boost safety efforts is like saying you will stop smoking in bed while you stand in front of your house as it burns to the ground from having fallen asleep while smoking.
This is a disaster beyond imagination and the government is willfully downplaying it and will obfuscate and attempt to hide the impacts of the radiation to the health of the people.
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techall
Great, the nation with the most nuclear mishaps in the last 20 years and the last advanced nation (execpt China) to conduct atmospheric nuclear testing are getting together to make us all safer.
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SquidBert
France has a nuclear fetish, second to none.
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zichi
Trade minister, Yukio Edano, said on Monday he informed TEPCO, that it has to save at least Y2.5 trillion ($33 billion) in cost cuts over the next decade.
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