IAEA inspects Japan's crippled nuclear plant following radioactive water leak, recent glitches
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A U.N. nuclear watchdog team has begun inspecting Japan's crippled nuclear plant, which has been plagued with radioactive water leaks and other glitches more than two years it was struck by a tsunami.
The International Atomic Energy Agency team is primarily reviewing the decommissioning of the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant, which was ravaged in the March 2011 disaster. The team will also investigate recent blackouts and leaks that have raised doubts whether the plant can survive the decades-long cleanup process.
Tokyo Electric Power Co. President Naomi Hirose said he hoped to gather expertise from around the world to resolve the problems hampering the cleanup at the plant.
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Japan's government is launching a panel specifically on the contaminated water, a mixture of cooling water runoff from melted reactors and underground water.