The IAEA has highlighted some of the weaknesses that contributed to the crisis Wednesday, June 22, 2011
IAEA holding nuclear safety talks
The IAEA has highlighted some of the weaknesses that contributed to the crisis The UN's nuclear watchdog is about to start a meeting aimed at improving nuclear safety as a result of the disaster at Japan's Fukushima plant.
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) will hold five days of talks involving officials from 150 countries on how to make nuclear power safer.
But there are differences as to how much international action is needed to prevent future accidents.
The meeting will also discuss a report into the Fukushima nuclear emergency.
But the BBC's Bethany Bell in Vienna, where the IAEA is based, says some states argue the details of safety regulation should be left to the governments concerned.
Others want the IAEA's guidelines to be made mandatory under international law.
The Fukushima disaster has prompted widespread public concern about nuclear safety.
Germany has decided to shut down all its reactors by 2022 and Italy has voted against plans to revive nuclear power.
Resolving that dispute is likely to be a long process, our correspondent says.
The IAEA report on the Fukushima accident is to be published on Monday at the conference.
Leaks from the report indicate it has found that Japan did not follow all the proper guidelines for how to respond to the crisis.
It failed to follow what the IAEA calls tiered safety measures, and did not learn from past threats to nuclear plants in areas prone to tsunami risk, according to leaks.
But it will also praise the dangerous and hard work carried out by Japan's nuclear workers.
"The operators were faced with a catastrophic, unprecedented emergency scenario with no power, reactor control or instrumentation," the 160-page report will say.
Some 110,000 tonnes of water have built up during efforts to cool reactors which were hit by the 11 March earthquake and tsunami.
The contaminated water, enough to fill 40 Olympic-sized swimming pools, has been at risk of spilling into the sea.
Fukushima's is the world's worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl in Ukraine in 1986.
The powerful earthquake and the tsunami it generated are now known to have killed more than 15,280 people, while nearly 8,500 remain unaccounted for.
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