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STORY: VIENNA / IAEA JAPAN UPDATE
TRT: 1:19
SOURCE: UNTV
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGES: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 15 MARCH 2011, VIENNA, AUSTRIA / RECENT
RECENT - VIENNA, AUSTRIA
1. Wide shot, exterior IAEA headquarters
15 MARCH 2011, VIENNA, AUSTRIA
2. Pan right, IAEA meeting
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Yukiya Amano, Director-General, International Atomic Energy Agency:
“High level of radioactivity was observed in the vicinity of the reactors and there is a possible damage of the fuel and there is also possibility of separation chamber damage. These were worrying events that happened since the last briefing up to now.”
4. Cutaway, audience
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Yukiya Amano, Director-General, International Atomic Energy Agency:
“I have conducted further discussion with the Japanese side on the dispatch of expert mission and now we have identified environment monitoring will be one of the areas which will be helpful on the Japanese side.”
6. Med shot, IAEA officials at podium
Head of the United Nations (UN) nuclear watchdog agency Yukiya Amano called the situation at Japan’s Fukushima power plant “worrying” adding that “high-level of radioactivity was observed in the vicinity of the reactors.”
Speaking at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) headquarters in Vienna today (15 Mar), Amano added that the Agency is sending an environmental monitoring team to Japan after the partial meltdown at reactors there.
The IAEA has already intensified its cooperation with other international organizations, including the UN World Meteorological Organization (WMO), which can help coordinate global information on wind directions, showing where any radioactive clouds might be bound.
The IAEA is expected to discuss with the Japanese Government what other services it can provide.
Meanwhile, UN disaster assessment officials are expected to tour parts of Japan that received the brunt of Friday’s devastating earthquake and tsunami as they continue their efforts to help the country in what Prime Minister Naoto Kan has called its worst disaster since World War II.
