http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/17/world/asia/17briefs-Fukushima.html?ref=asia
Published: May 16, 2011
Japan: U.S. Agency to Stop Monitoring Nuclear Plant By MATTHEW L. WALD
The United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission said on Monday that its 24-hour operations center had stopped monitoring the nuclear reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi plant because the situation there had improved. “The conditions at the Japanese reactors are slowly stabilizing,” said William Borchardt, the agency’s chief staff official. “As conditions have continued to improve and the Japanese continue to implement their recovery plan, the N.R.C. has determined that it is time to adjust our response,” he said. The agency still has a team of engineers in Tokyo, he said. Mr. Borchardt said last week that the condition of the reactors was “static but not stable.”