Fire broke out at another nuclear station during an inspection by an IAEA team on May 27

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<snip>‘Ineptitude, Negligence’

The plant had a gas tank explosion on May 31 and reported oil leaks into the ocean. The nearby Dai-Ni nuclear station, also operated by Tepco, reported a fire in a distribution panel on May 27, during a visit by an investigation team from the International Atomic Energy Agency.

“If Tepco was operating this facility in the U.S., all of the reactors would have been shut down indefinitely and there would have been a complete changeover of management,” said nuclear engineer Michael Friedlander.

“In terms of the way they handled the accident, in terms of the way they let the information out to the press, the inconsistency in the data they have presented; words like ineptitude, negligence is the only way to characterize it,” said Friedlander, who spent 13 years operating U.S. nuclear power plants, including the Crystal River Station in Florida now owned by Progress Energy Inc.