Nuclear Agency's Board Adopts Safety Plan

Vienna, Sep 13: A 35-nation meeting of the UN nuclear agency today adopted a post-Fukushima nuclear safety plan despite gripes by influential member nations that it to too timid for making compliance voluntary.

Germany and several other EU states as well as Canada, Australia, Singapore and New Zealand are unhappy with the plan because it does not obligate countries to allow outside monitoring of their civilian nuclear programs and gives the International Atomic Energy Agency no enforcement powers on safety.

Board member nations adopted the document by consensus, but not before Canada aired grievances shared by other critics in an unusually blunt statement.

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