Russian experts to go to Japan to study situation with nuclear power stations
MOSCOW. March 14 (Interfax) - Experts from Rosenergoatom and the Institute for Safe Development of Nuclear Power Industry of the Russian Academy of Sciences will leave for Japan on Monday to monitor the situation at the country's nuclear power stations, Rafael Arutyunyan, a representative of the Institute for Safe Development of Nuclear Power Industry of the Russian Academy of Sciences, told a briefing.
"The Russian Emergency Situations Ministry plane is expected to leave for Japan on Monday to take our experts there," he said.
The second Russian Emergency Situations Ministry plane carrying specialists from the Emergency Situations Ministry's Leader Center 294, which is in charge of special operations, will leave for Japan on Monday afternoon.
"We need to know the source and characteristics of emissions, which will enable us to model the situation more precisely. The arrival of the Russian rescuers will help make predictions more precise," Alexander Frolov, director of Rosgidromet, said.
According to the Institute for Safe Development of Nuclear Power Industry of the Russian Academy of Sciences, there are no threats to Russia's population even in the event of the worst-case scenario.
The Rosatom operative headquarters, in turn, told reporters that "the headquarters experts are finding the information that is coming in, including through the international channel of the IAEA crisis center, to be extremely insufficient and irregular."
