The nuclear accident at Japan's Fukushima power plant is unlikely to escalate into a situation like the disaster at Ukraine's Chernobyl plant 25 years ago, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said Monday in Vienna, dpa reported.
IAEA director general Yukiya Amano said the main difference is that no chain reaction is going on in any of the Fukushima reactors, and that the Japanese reactor cores are housed in containment vessels that were not in place at Chernobyl.
"The possibility that the development of this accident into the one like in Chernobyl accident is very unlikely," he said.
"This is not an accident because of human errors or design," the Japanese IAEA head told reporters. "This is because of a huge natural catastrophe which was beyond the imagination and experience of people."
Second Chernobyl in Japan "very unlikely", IAEA says
The nuclear accident at Japan's Fukushima power plant is unlikely to escalate into a situation like the disaster at Ukraine's Chernobyl plant 25 years ago.
