Tepco Advisers Urge Separate Entity to Decommission Plant

Decommissioning the wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant would be better handled by a separate entity, leaving its operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. to focus on its core business of generating electricity, advisers to the company said.

“I would like to see a structure where those involved on the clean-up are focused, and clearly know that their job, and their job only, is safe, reliable clean-up of that site,” Dale Klein, the chairman of Tokyo Electric’s Nuclear Reform Monitoring Committee, said in an interview in Tokyo today.