TEPCO Chairman Surfaces, Apologizes over #Fukushima I Nuke Plant

Well, where has he been all this time? After 19 days?

Before he became the chairman of Tokyo Electric Power Company, Mr. Katsumata was the president of the company until he resigned in February 2008 over the Kashiwazaki Nuclear Power Plant accident.

Asahi Shinbun (3:47PM 3/30/2011) reports:

Tokyo Electric Power Company Chairman Tsunehisa Katsumata held a press conference in Tokyo on March 30, and offered his "apologies from the bottom of my [his] heart". As to the Reactors 1 through 4 at the plant, he said "Under the current circumstance, we will probably have to shut them down."

　東京電力の勝俣恒久会長は３０日、都内で会見を開き、福島第一原発の事故や放射性物質放出による被害について、「心から深くおわび申し上げます」と謝罪。同原発１～４号機は「今の状況を見ると、おそらく廃止せざるを得ない」と言明した。

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