UN experts to review plans for release of Fukushima water

Nuclear reactor units at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant (AP)

A team from the UN nuclear agency has arrived in Japan to assess preparations for the release into the ocean of treated radioactive water from the wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant.

The experts on the team from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) are to meet with Japanese officials and visit the Fukushima Daiichi plant to discuss technical details of the planned release, Japanese officials said.