The IAEA Director General's Report on the Fukushima Daiichi Accident, along with five technical volumes on this topic by international experts, were published Monday. This publication comes ahead of the Agency's General Conference in September.
The report assesses the causes and consequences of the 11 March 2011 accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Japan, triggered by a tsunami that followed a massive earthquake. It was the worst emergency at a nuclear power plant since the Chernobyl disaster in 1986.
The report and the technical volumes distil and assemble lessons learned from the accident and provide a knowledge base for the future.
"Although nuclear safety remains the responsibility of each individual country, nuclear accidents can transcend national borders," Amano said in his foreword. "The Fukushima Daiichi accident underlined the vital importance of effective international cooperation. The IAEA is where most of that cooperation takes place. Our Member States adopted the IAEA Action Plan on Nuclear Safety a few months after the accident and have been implementing its far reaching provisions to improve global nuclear safety," he added.
Amano had announced in 2012 that the IAEA would prepare an authoritative, factual and balanced assessment of the accident, addressing both its causes and consequences. The report is the result of an extensive collaboration that involved some 180 experts from 42 IAEA Member States and several international bodies.
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