Tepco Chief Rebuffed As Nuclear Crisis Enters Second Month

The head of Tokyo Electric Power Co. was refused a meeting with the governor of Fukushima, where the utility is battling radiation leaks from its atomic station at the center of Japan’s worst civilian nuclear disaster.

Masataka Shimizu, president of the utility known as Tepco, asked to meet Yuhei Sato while visiting the prefectural capital today and was turned down, company spokesman Kazuo Yamanaka said. The governor had declined a meeting on March 22.