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Tepco Press Conference: The situation at Fukushima is bleak — “This discharge is beyond our control” (VIDEO)

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Aug. 8, 2013

Two and a half years may have passed since the Fukushima nuclear disaster, but problems there are as serious now as they’ve ever been [...]

The head of the country’s Nuclear Regulatory Authority task force Shinji Kinjo told Reuters on Monday that the leak was an emergency, but he was worried the plant’s operator, TEPCO, had no sense of how to deal with it. [...]

In a recent news conference, TEPCO General manager Masayuki Ono said the situation was bleak.

“We understand that this discharge is beyond our control and we do not think the current situation is good.” [...]