Akhir 28, 1432, April 02, 2011, SPA -- The U.N. atomic agency will send two experts to Japan to get first-hand information about the status of the reactors at the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant. The two experts of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) will hold meetings with Japanese nuclear officials from April 4 onwards, the Vienna-based agency said in a statement posted on its website on Friday evening. The IAEA, which has as its wider mandate to help promote safe and peaceful uses of the atom, already has experts in Japan to monitor radiation levels. "The Agency, in agreement with the Japanese government, will dispatch two reactor experts to Japan," it said. "The objective of this visit is to exchange views with Japanese technical experts and to get first-hand information about the current status of reactors at Fukushima Daiichi, measures being taken and future plans to mitigate the accident." In Japan on Saturday, the operator of the Fukushima plant said it had found radioactive water leaking into the sea from a cracked concrete pit at its No.2 reactor.
