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Japan seen tapping foreigners for nuclear crisis review

TOKYO - Japan, stung by international criticism of its handling of a nuclear crisis, will likely include foreign experts in a review of the disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant, an aide to the prime minister said on Wednesday.
Prime Minister Naoto Kan has promised an eventual review of the crisis, in which cooling functions at the nuclear power plant in northeast Japan were knocked out by a 15 meter (49 foot) tsunami on March 11, leading to leaks of radiation into the air and sea.
"Of course we will have Japanese experts but it's highly possible that we will have foreign experts take part in the review," Goshi Hosono, special adviser to Kan, told a news conference.