Aerial view of damaged reactors :
YouTube - 平成23年3月27日 福島第1原発状況
Pouring sea water into reactor blocks :
YouTube - 福島第一原発放水作業（３月１８日）
FOCUS: Tokyo Electric comes under fire for releasing wrong nuclear data
TOKYO, March 28, Kyodo
While efforts at containing troubled reactors have not been making rapid progress at its Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, signs were emerging that Tokyo Electric Power Co., in the absence of a top officer, is losing its grip on accurately informing the public about risks from radiation.
On Sunday, the utility, known as TEPCO, announced in the morning that the concentration of radioactive materials of water found inside a turbine building adjacent to a rector housing was ''around 10 million times (that of) water in a normal reactor core'' but later corrected the information, saying it ''made a wrong estimation.''
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But on Saturday, it was disclosed that the company had not informed workers who suffered high levels of radiation at the No. 3 reactor unit about radiation levels of the place where they would be working. The government was also found to have not been informed.
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Critics say the company lacks cost consciousness and apparently has no idea about what competition is. It is more like a bureaucracy rather than a business being run, they said.
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Western media have highlighted the absence of the top management. An official of a foreign company said, ''TEPCO turned its back even against the world.''
Kyodo News : rest of the article
Okay, another one stone into a glass house of TEPCO. Since a very childhood, almost every person knows about existense of fictional universe filled by various super duper highly sophisticated robots of japanese origin (gundams etc). We can see various dancing and talking japanese androids at hi-tech shows. It looks out like technology from XXII century or so. Many people believed in ultimately leading positions of Japan in a field of robotics.
Why they did not create automated crafts that could work in highly contaminated zones without humans? Why they did not create any sort of smart, remotely-controlled robots to work nearby damaged reactors?
Even those "primitive Russians" used to explore remotely-controlled devices in Chernobyl power plant after disaster.
Questions, questions......