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Credit: Reuters/IAEA Photo/Handout By Fredrik Dahl VIENNA | Tue Aug 23, 2011 2:55pm EDT VIENNA (Reuters) - The U.N. atomic agency will carry out at least one safety inspection in each country with nuclear power plants in the coming three years under proposals aimed at preventing any repeat of Japan's nuclear crisis. The draft document from the International Atomic Energy Agency, a revised version of a plan presented to IAEA member states this month, outlined a series of steps to help improve global nuclear safety after the Fukushima accident in March. "The robust implementation of this action plan with full transparency will be of utmost importance and will represent a significant step forward in strengthening nuclear safety," the draft, obtained by Reuters Tuesday, said. Diplomats said the plan sought to map out a middle way between countries which have advocated stricter and binding international rules and those which want to keep safety as an issue strictly for national authorities. "This is middle ground," one European diplomat said of the draft. "It is still not the most ambitious of documents." On the key issue of international safety inspections the text was amended, following feedback from member state diplomats last week, to spell out that all IAEA states with nuclear power programs would host such expert missions. But at the same time a numerical target of the U.N. agency reviewing 10 percent of the world's reactors in three years was taken out, and IAEA missions would still take place upon a country's invitation. One nuclear expert said the text watered down ideas put forward by IAEA chief Yukiya Amano in June that the U.N. body could conduct random inspections of the world's 440 reactors -- a suggestion that was not included in the draft. "Member states have weakened Amano's June proposals to strengthen the agency and boost its credibility on safety," the expert, who declined to be named, said. EXTREME NATURAL HAZARDS Today, some 29 states have nuclear energy, with most reactors in the United States, France, Japan and Russia. The new IAEA draft said that each member state with nuclear power plants would "host at least one IAEA Operational Safety Review Team (OSART) mission during the coming three years, with the initial focus on older nuclear power plants." The previous version said the U.N. body would organize safety reviews of one power unit in ten over three years, without specifying that all nuclear states would be covered. Amano told Reuters last week he hoped the agency's annual member state gathering would endorse the action plan next month. 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