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Vienna (AFP) May 27, 2011 A team of foreign experts have visited two other nuclear plants in Japan before they go on to inspect the Fukushima plant at the centre of the current emergency, the UN atomic watchdog said Friday. The International Atomic Energy Agency said in a statement that its special fact-finding mission visited Tokai Daini Nuclear Power Plant and then the Fukushima Daini Nuclear Power Plant on Thursday to review the damage at both sites. The 18-strong team, made up of experts from 12 countries including the United States, China, Russia and South Korea, held "technical talks with plant operators," the statement said. The delegation, including six of the IAEA's own specialists, would "also conduct site visits at Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant," which was crippled by an earthquake and tsunami on March 11 and has leaked high levels of radiation into the environment with meltdowns reported in three reactors. The aim of the 10-day fact-finding mission into the world's worst atomic crisis since Chernobyl was to "identify lessons from the Japanese nuclear accident that could improve global nuclear safety," the IAEA said.
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