Fukushima leak: Japanese PM seeks overseas help
8 Oct 2013 4:16 AM IST
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Sunday that Japan is open to receiving overseas help to contain widening radioactive water leaks at the crippled nuclear plant in Fukushima, with leaks and mishaps reported almost daily.
Abe made the comments in a speech at an international science forum in Kyoto in western Japan.
‘We are wide open to receive the most advanced knowledge from overseas to contain the problem,’ Abe said in his English speech to open the conference on energy and environment.
‘My country needs your knowledge and expertise,’ he said. Despite Abe’s reassurances to the International Olympic Committee last month that the leaks were ‘under control,’ many Japanese believe he was glossing over problems at the plant.
Abe did not say whether he still thinks the leaks are under control, or give any specifics about foreign participation. His comments come just days after the plant’s operator acknowledged that highly contaminated water spilled from a storage tank as workers tried to fill it to the top.
Abe made the comments in a speech at an international science forum in Kyoto in western Japan.
‘We are wide open to receive the most advanced knowledge from overseas to contain the problem,’ Abe said in his English speech to open the conference on energy and environment.
‘My country needs your knowledge and expertise,’ he said. Despite Abe’s reassurances to the International Olympic Committee last month that the leaks were ‘under control,’ many Japanese believe he was glossing over problems at the plant.
Abe did not say whether he still thinks the leaks are under control, or give any specifics about foreign participation. His comments come just days after the plant’s operator acknowledged that highly contaminated water spilled from a storage tank as workers tried to fill it to the top.
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