Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, wearing a protective suit and mask, is briefed about tanks containing radioactive water by Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant chief Akira Ono as they stand near a tank that is being dismantled after it leaked contaminated water. During Abe’s tour of the Tokyo Electric Power Company’s tsunami crippled plant in Fukushima prefecture, Japan, he was shown tanks, water treatment equipment and a chemical dam being installed along the coast - steps meant to contain the water leakage. Abe has ordered the scrapping of two nuclear reactors that survived the 2011 tsunami, a writeoff that threatens to complicate a turnaround plan the operator has presented to creditors. |
