Japan scientists to create controlled nuclear meltdown

TOKYO:  A team of nuclear scientists in Japan said on Thursday that they plan to create a controlled reactor meltdown in a bid to learn how to deal with future disasters like that at Fukushima.

The Japan Atomic Energy Agency said it was working on a project using a scaled-down version of a reactor which they would deliberately cause to malfunction at a research facility in Ibaraki, north of Tokyo.