TOKYO, Aug 05, SPA -- A team of U.N. nuclear inspectors arrived in Japan on Sunday to assess the condition of a nuclear power plant severely damaged in an earthquake last month, Japanese officials said. The July 16 magnitude-6.8 quake in Niigata prefecture(state) killed 11 people and injured more than 1,000. Italso caused numerous malfunctions and leaks at the plant _the world's largest in terms of capacity _ and raisedconcerns about safety at Japan's nuclear power stations. The International Atomic Energy Agency team, led byPhilippe Jamet, Director of the Nuclear Installation SafetyDivision, plans to start examining the plant on Monday and will return to Tokyo on Friday for talks with Japanesenuclear safety officials, according to a statement by theNuclear and Industrial Safety Agency. The team will compile a report after the inspection. «We'll collect information and identify the lessonslearned that are the most important for the internationalcommunity,» Jamet told reporters at Narita InternationalAirport near Tokyo. «We're here ... to make an independentexamination.»--SPA www.spa.gov.sa/472796