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STORY: IAEA / NUCLEAR SAFETY REVIEW WRAP
TRT: 1.54
SOURCE: IAEA
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 4 APRIL 2011, VIENNA INTERNATIONAL CENTRE, VIENNA, AUSTRIA/ FILE
FILE – RECENT, VIENNA, AUSTRIA
1. Tilt up, IAEA Headquarters
28 MARCH 2011, VIENNA INTERNATIONAL CENTRE, VIENNA, AUSTRIA
2. Wide shot, conference room
3. Pan left, Amano arrival
4. Med shot, photographers
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Yukiya Amano, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General:
“The worries of millions of people throughout the world about whether nuclear energy is safe must be taken seriously. Rigorous adherence to the most robust international safety standards and full transparency in good times and bad are vital for restoring and maintaining public confidence in nuclear power.”
6. Med shot, cameras and dais
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Yukiya Amano, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General:
“The Agency would like to send an international expert mission to conduct an assessment of the accident upon request from Japan. I believe this should include an element of peer review. It is clear that more needs to be done to strengthen the safety of nuclear power plants so that the risk of a future accident is significantly reduced.”
8. Wide shot, audience
9. Zoom in, Amano arriving at press conference
10. Close up, photographer
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Yukiya Amano, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General:
“The basic elements behind the growing interest in nuclear power, which we have witnessed in recent years, have not changed as a result of Fukushima. I mean by that, the elements like the global energy demand, or the concerns about climate change, or volatile fuel price and energy security. These elements will continue to exist.”
12. Wide shot, press conference
The head of the United Nations atomic watchdog agency today (4 April) called for robust safety standards and full transparency, both of which are vital for restoring public confidence in nuclear power in the wake of the Japanese power plant crisis.
Yukiya Amano, Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), told delegates gathered in Vienna for the Fifth Review Meeting of Contracting Parties to the Convention on Nuclear Safety Convention that “the worries of millions of people throughout the world about whether nuclear energy is safe must be taken seriously.“
He stated that “rigorous adherence to the most robust international safety standards and full transparency, in good times and bad, are vital for restoring and maintaining public confidence in nuclear power.”
The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant suffered major damage from the earthquake and tsunami that struck the country on 11 March and has been spewing radioactive contamination into the environment ever since. Amano told the opening of the 10-day conference that the situation at the plant remains very serious.
The Director General noted that upon request from Japan, the Agency would like to send an international expert mission to conduct an assessment of the accident.
He said he believed such an assessment “should include an element of peer review” and added that “it is clear that more needs to be done to strengthen the safety of nuclear power plants so that the risk of a future accident is significantly reduced.”
Amano reported that, as of the end of 2010, more than 60 IAEA Member States had informed the agency that they were considering introducing nuclear power programmes. Almost all of the 29 countries which already had such programmes planned to expand them.
In the light of the Fukushima Daiichi accident, some countries have announced reviews of their plans for nuclear power.
He explained that the basic drivers behind the interest in nuclear power “have not changed as a result of Fukushima” and will “continue to exist”. These include rising global energy demand as well as concerns about climate change, volatile fossil fuel prices and energy security.
Amano will be convening a high-level meeting of IAEA Member States in June to discuss the Japan crisis.
