The Fukushima plant was crippled by the 11 March tsunami
G20 energy ministers are set to meet in Paris to discuss nuclear safety in the wake Japan's Fukushima disaster.
The accident caused by March's earthquake and tsunami has led to calls for tougher global safety measures.Some governments are now reconsidering their nuclear energy strategy.
Germany has became the first major industrialised power to abandon nuclear energy, re-focusing industry on green technologies and a new generation of cleaner gas and coal powered plants.
Convention review France leads the world in nuclear energy: 80% of the country's electricity comes from 58 nuclear reactors. Exporting that nuclear expertise is a major part of the French economy.
At the recent G8 summit in Deauville, President Nicolas Sarkozy, who also holds the presidency of the G20, met Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan to begin work on drafting a new set of global nuclear security standards by the end of this year.
Mr Sarkozy said from now on safety, not cost, should drive the standard of future projects and technology .
The French leader has not yet explained how regulation could be improved.
But other officials, including the EU Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso, have called for a review of the International Atomic Energy Agency's nuclear safety convention - which governs international standards.
The IAEA will meet to discuss that issue later this month.
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