High-level meeting on nuclear safety and security

In response to the disaster at the Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Station in Japan in March 2011, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon convened a high-level meeting on 22 September 2011 on the margins of the UN General Assembly's sixty-sixth session. The meeting focused on strengthening the global nuclear safety regime and ensuring maximum nuclear safety standards.

In advance of the high-level meeting, the UN Secretariat has released a UN system-wide study on nuclear power. Reaching Critical Will has facilitated a global civil society study on nuclear power, which was released on 11 September, six months after the disaster at Fukushima. RCW has also released an assessment of the UN study and a report on the HLM.