Tepco President Apologizes for Fukushima Leak Disclosure Delay

Tokyo Electric Power Co. erred by not publicly airing its suspicions that radioactive groundwater at the Fukushima nuclear plant may be leaking into the ocean, the company’s president said.

The utility known as Tepco suspected that the groundwater was seeping into the Pacific more than a month before it acknowledged that the leakage was taking place on July 22, President Naomi Hirose said at a press conference today. That acknowledgment was based on data shared with him three days earlier, said Hirose, who apologized for that delay as well.