The government plans to propose at next month’s global nuclear security summit creating backup systems to secure electricity supplies in the event that terrorist attacks against nuclear plants knock out power sources.
The Noda administration intends to make the proposal at the Nuclear Security Summit to be held from March 26 to 27 in Seoul, and to have it incorporated it in a document adopted at the meeting, government sources said Thursday.
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