Where is Japan's nuclear power CEO?

[PA Democrat]

And many Japanese, on a knife edge waiting to see if the nuclear power plant and radiation leaks can be brought under control, are beginning to ask where he is and questioning how much he is in control of the crisis.

Masataka Shimizu, chief executive of Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO), has not made a public appearance in a week.

And he has yet to visit the crippled nuclear power plant north of Tokyo that was badly damaged in the massive earthquake and tsunami that struck on March 11, and where 300 workers are desperately trying to find ways to cool down the reactors.

According to the Mainichi Shimbun newspaper, he did not even show up at company headquarters until a day after the disaster because he was stranded in the west of the country after trains stopped running.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/20/us-japan-quake-absent-ceo-idUSTRE72J2DK20110320

[notadmblnd]

1. There was an article last week

with a picture of him weeping posted here. :shrug:

[PA Democrat]

2. That was a different guy in that picture. He was

Tokyo Electric Power Company Managing Director Akio Komiri

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1367684/Japan-earthquake-tsunami-Fukushima-nulear-plant-radiation-leak-kill-people.html#ixzz1H9SWzi4J

[grahamhgreen]

3. Rememberduring the BP oil spill, the BP CEO, tony Haywood(?), said he wanted his life back,

and went yachting.

These people are sociopaths with a hoarding disorder.

He should be in the plant with the workers who will die getting it entombed.

Then, he should pay for everything.

[txlibdem]

4. Yes, with all past and present CEOs and members of the board

Might as well throw in all the top management including VPs in there as well.

As usual, the people to pay the ultimate price aren't the people who caused the problem through mismanagement, cutting corners, failing to replace aging equipment (as in the entire friggin' reactor), etc.

Is that so different than here in the US, where social security and medicare have to take huge cuts to cover for the thievery and incompetence of the banksters and collusion of the "regulators who couldn't regulate?"