IAEA nuclear security conf to focus on Japanese nuclear disaster

VIENNA, June 20 (Itar-Tass) -- A nuclear security conference will open
here on Monday. The forum will be held at the ministerial level upon the
initiative of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to draw
lessons from a nuclear disaster at the Fukushima-1 nuclear power plant
that was triggered by the natural disasters. Director General of the
Russian nuclear power state corporation Rosatom Sergei Kiriyenko will head
the Russian delegation.
IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano initiated the conference. He
believes that the agency brings together many countries, which have an
indisputable authority in all issues related with the use of nuclear power
and nuclear security, and, therefore, is the best floor to generalize the
conclusions, which the world community should make from the Fukushima-1
nuclear disaster. The ministerial meeting will make part of a long-term
process to upgrade the current system and to create a new comprehensive
system of nuclear security with due account of the aftermaths of the
Fukushima nuclear disaster.
The forum, which will last until the end of this week, will give an
opportunity to all IAEA states to take the floor. The Rosatom chief is
expected to spell out detailed initiatives, which the Russian president
had made at the recent G-8 summit in France's Deauville. The Russian
president called for the development of additional requirements to the
construction of nuclear power plants in seismically dangerous zones and
districts that are exposed to some natural calamities. Meanwhile, Russia
believes that the countries, which possess peaceful atom technologies,
should also agree on the general principles for the information exchange
over the disasters.
The conference is expected to adopt a declaration, which confirms
their determination to make nuclear security stronger in the world.
Kiriyenko intends to have working meetings with the IAEA general
director and the heads of the delegations from the United States and India
on the first day of the conference.