From ABC NEWS:
Months after a senior Japanese International Atomic Energy Agency official urged better safety procedures at nuclear plants around the world to “avoid another Chernobyl,” another IAEA official said that earthquakes presented a “serious problem” to nuclear plant safety, according to a recently released U.S. State Department cable….
Other leaked U.S. State Department documents, published by the website WikiLeaks, show the U.S. had little confidence in [Tomihiro]Taniguchi, who was at the time the head of the IAEA’s Department of Nuclear Safety and Security.
“Taniguchi has been a weak manager and advocate, particularly with respect to confronting Japan’s own safety practices, and he is a particular disappointment to the United States for his unloved-step-child treatment of the Office of Nuclear Security,” said the 2009 document, posted on the website of the British newspaper The Guardian. “This position requires a good manager and leader who is technically qualified in both safety and security.”
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