SENDAI (AFP) - Japan said Thursday its crisis-hit nuclear plant must be scrapped, but currently had no plans to evacuate more people, despite calls for a larger exclusion zone around the crippled facility. Grappling with the aftermath of a massive earthquake and tsunami, its biggest post-war disaster, Japan's govt hosted French President Nicolas Sarkozy, who called for clear international standards on nuclear safety. Japan's PM Naoto Kan said, in talks with the Japanese Communist Party leader, that the facility at the centre of the worst atomic accident since Chernobyl in 1986 must be decommissioned, Kyodo News reported. Officials have previously hinted the plant would be retired once the situation there is stabilised, given the severe damage it has sustained including likely partial meltdowns.