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U.N. Warns World to Prepare for More Nuclear Accidents

HeadlineApr 21, 2011

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon warned Wednesday that the world must be prepared for more nuclear accidents on the scale of Chernobyl and Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi plant, but he declined to call for an end to nuclear power. Ban Ki-moon made the comment at a conference in Kiev, Ukraine, marking the 25th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster.

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon: “We have to have a sharper focus on the relationship between natural disaster and nuclear energy. We have to have review on cost-benefit on nuclear energy. And lastly, we have also have a serious review how we can strengthen nuclear safety energy and how we can protect this nuclear technology from nuclear terrorism.”

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