http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5gJw8-9Yz-oNvmT0Jim5CnajxwvngVIENNA (AFP) — The Japanese nuclear safety body examining the damage at the world's largest nuclear plant in Japan, hit by a powerful earthquake in July, declined to say Thursday when the plant might re-open.
"At this moment, we can't say when the reactor could be restarted," said Akira Fukushima, a top official at Japan's Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency (NISA).
"What I can say now is that we have to be careful to do our investigations and our research," Fukushima told journalists.
The comments came as NISA presented a report on the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear plant on the sidelines of the UN nuclear watchdog's general conference here.
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