TEPCO executive chairman Tsunehisa Katsumata (left) and the vice-president Sakae Mutoh (right)
Tokyo Electric executive chairman Tsunehisa Katsumata revealed it was supposed to decommission the crippled first – fourth reactors in its Fukushima nuclear power plant, which is still plagued by a disaterous level of nuclear radiation despite the successive efforts to cool them down and resuscitate function of and power supply to their operation rooms.
“There still remains a serious challenge of draining the highly radiated water swamped in the reactor buildings”, Katsumata said, showing their difficulties to break the deadlock. “The government offers us several possible suggestions to the solution, including the possibility of carry the water by tanker. I think it’s a difficult option to take, but I will take any possible solutions into consideration.”
During the two-hour press conference Wednesday afternoon, the electric firm managers have been bearing the brunt of a storm of harsh questions by reporters and journalists.
Mr Katsumata stressed there was no procrastination about countermeasures against the incidents, adding there occurred malfunction of the communication system that cut the connection to the Cabinet Office, when a journalist asked the chairman whether the initial reaction for the nuclear power plants found inoperative was delayed.
However, a little tumultuous moment came just after the chairman revealed he traveled in China with the top brass in the national media companies, whose travel expenses were partly treated by TEPCO’s account, while the headquarters was dealing with the accidents from the crippled reactors hit hard by the tsunamis.
Just after the news released that TEPCO’s president Masataka Shimizu, who had ever led its operation team, was hospitalized because he suddenly complained of dizziness and high blood pressure disease, the chairman Katsumata represented the press conference with other Tokyo Electric executives.
“There still remains a serious challenge of draining the highly radiated water swamped in the reactor buildings”, Katsumata said, showing their difficulties to break the deadlock. “The government offers us several possible suggestions to the solution, including the possibility of carry the water by tanker. I think it’s a difficult option to take, but I will take any possible solutions into consideration.”
During the two-hour press conference Wednesday afternoon, the electric firm managers have been bearing the brunt of a storm of harsh questions by reporters and journalists.
Mr Katsumata stressed there was no procrastination about countermeasures against the incidents, adding there occurred malfunction of the communication system that cut the connection to the Cabinet Office, when a journalist asked the chairman whether the initial reaction for the nuclear power plants found inoperative was delayed.
However, a little tumultuous moment came just after the chairman revealed he traveled in China with the top brass in the national media companies, whose travel expenses were partly treated by TEPCO’s account, while the headquarters was dealing with the accidents from the crippled reactors hit hard by the tsunamis.
Just after the news released that TEPCO’s president Masataka Shimizu, who had ever led its operation team, was hospitalized because he suddenly complained of dizziness and high blood pressure disease, the chairman Katsumata represented the press conference with other Tokyo Electric executives.
