Tokyo Electric to scrap 4 reactors at troubled nuclear plant
TOKYO, March 30, Kyodo
Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Wednesday that it will scrap the troubled four reactor units of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant while warning that the ongoing efforts to contain the country’s worst nuclear crisis will be a drawn-out process.
But Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano suggested that all six reactors should be scrapped at the 40-year-old plant in Fukushima Prefecture, saying at a news conference, ”It is very clear looking at the social circumstances.”
Tsunehisa Katsumata, the company’s chairman, said at a news conference nearly three weeks after a powerful earthquake and tsunami prompted the crisis that ”several weeks will be too short” to stabilize overheating reactors and spent-fuel pools.