Tuesday, 5 February 2013

Fukushima irony


Fukushima plant’s ex-chief “in worse shape” — Almost impossible to question him, says Tepco — Suffering from cancer and stroke since 3/11

In this November 2011 photo, Masao Yoshida, then chief of the Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant, is pictured in Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture. (Pool photo)


4 February, 2013


Prosecutors investigating responsibility for the Fukushima No.1 Nuclear Power Plant disaster have seized testimony from the plant’s former chief, who cannot currently be questioned due to poor health.

Prosecutors obtained records documented by a government disaster investigation team, apparently judging them necessary in deciding whether they can form a criminal case against the former chief, Masao Yoshida.

[...] according to TEPCO sources, Yoshida, who has been reported as having esophageal cancer and having suffered a stroke, is in worse shape now than when he was questioned by the government team, and it would be almost impossible to question him.


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