The government said Tuesday that International Atomic Energy Agency experts will visit Japan later this month to study such issues as the just-started fuel removal work at a pool inside a damaged reactor building at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear complex.

The IAEA mission, to be led by Juan Carlos Lentijo, director of the IAEA Division of Nuclear Fuel Cycle and Waste Technology, will be in Japan from Nov. 25 to Dec. 4. The team will release a summary of its review on the final day, a government official said.

The announcement was made as delicate work by Tokyo Electric Power Co. to eventually remove more than 1,000 fuel assemblies from the spent fuel pool in the No. 4 reactor building entered its second day.