French President Nicolas Sarkozy called Thursday for G20 nations’ nuclear regulators to meet to discuss international safety standards, in the first visit to quake-hit Japan by a foreign leader.
"We call on the independent authorities of G20 members to meet, if possible in Paris, to define an international nuclear safety standard" for power plants, he said in a speech at the French Embassy in Tokyo.
"It is absolutely abnormal that these international safety standards do not exist," he (…)