Obama: Crisis won't alter stance on nuclear power

China Daily | Updated: 2011-03-17 08:02

An official in a full radiation protection suit scans an evacuated woman and her dog with a Geiger counter to check radiation levels in Koriyama city in Fukushima prefecture, about 60 km west from the crisis-hit nuclear plant, on Wednesday. Ken Shimizu / Agence France-Presse

WASHINGTON / JAKARTA / CARACAS - US President Barack Obama on Tuesday defended the use of nuclear energy despite the calamity in Japan where a nuclear power plant leaked radiation in the wake of a devastating earthquake and tsunami.