Tokyo Electric Says Reactor Crisis Response Was ‘Best Possible’
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Tokyo Electric Power Co. for the first time defended its response to the crisis at the Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear power plant, with Chairman Tsunehisa Katsumata rejecting claims the utility was slow to react.
Katsumata took charge after President Masataka Shimizu, 66, was admitted to hospital for high blood pressure. Tepco, as the company is known, moved quickly to pour seawater on the plant’s reactors after the March 11 quake and tsunami knocked out its cooling systems, he said.