Japan’s Kan Says He Acted to Prevent Fukushima Plant Evacuation
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Former Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan said concern that Tokyo Electric Power Co. may evacuate all workers from its Fukushima atomic plant after last year’s quake and tsunami prompted him to create a joint response center.
Kan, who was prime minister at the time of the disaster that wrecked the plant and caused radiation leaks, spoke today before the probe headed by Kiyoshi Kurokawa, a professor emeritus at Tokyo University.