Britain’s nuclear regulator should look carefully at the Japanese experience for its existing reactors and the proposed new nuclear program, Huhne said.
In October 2010, the UK government approved new nuclear power plants to be built at eight sites in England and Wales.
According to the energy minister, Britain takes this incident seriously even though there is no reason to expect a similar scale of seismic activity in the country.
The earthquake has badly damaged the Fukushima nuclear power station north of Tokyo and hydrogen explosions have occurred at the plant’s reactors No 1 and 3.
