fast breathe reactor. the japanese minnesota industry has opinion japanese ministry has one of the hottest regulation on nuclear, and i don t think i minean, they a slow coming out of information, but they don t tell lies, they don t cover up. what i meant in discussion with the ambassador is they are trying to lead a nuclear strategy in the wrong way and don t really open the debate for that. if i understand you properly, you were referring to what we call the mox, acronym for enriched uranium that has plutonium that has been in some reactors, am i correct? that s right, that s right. if i m right am i right, that is part of the strategy that actually is creating this crisis in the sense that that is a highly enriched and perhaps more dangerous type of uranium and plutonium, that if it were
company was not releasing information timely. and they ve increased size for that. we have been, the opposition have been asking government to release information from the governme government, not let tepco handle information. the government has taken over releasiing information. now i heard the prime minister s office doing much more sophisticated web sites setting up to release all the information concerning the first plants. i think it s coming up soon. let me see if i totally understand. so the government, which you criticized for speaky slowly to its people, might take over communications from tepco. w what level of communication problems are we having from tepco then? well, i think tepco might try to clarify with the government before they release information. and now the government and tepco
serious questions remain about how japan is handling the nuclear reactor crisis. anderson cooper s in tokyo, has the japanese government or power company provided any additional information to clear things up? reporter: it sounded like the iaea had had one step forward, reporting power had been restored. power had been connected to reactor number two. tepco, the company that runs the reactors, said the iaea report is not true. they are trying to restore power to reactor number two. ultimately they re going to try to restore power to reactor number two. that s what started this cascade of problems, the lack of power to keep the rods cool.
has sort of joint head quota for this issue. and the government will start releasing the information in a timely basis instead of tepco. you have accused the industry and the government of covering up and i understand this is an awkward question for you to ask. did any of those cover-ups, did any of those safety problems that have not been addressed in the past contribute to the failure of tepco to properly address this problem? is this part of a culture of cover-up? is this part of a culture of not being straight and sincere about safety issues? if you are referring to the wikileaks thing, what i ve been criticizing is the government and the power industry trying to lead the nuclear strategy into the wrong way, namely getting the plutonium out of spent fuel by reprocessing without having
for releasing the information kind of late. something happened in the morning, and you get information after lunch. but they don t tell you lies. they are just too bureaucratic. and we are asking government to release the information more timely. and the ministry of education and science set up a web site yesterday. so you can monitor all the numbers coming from the radiation. but i just have to follow up on that. we have heard such a fundamentally divergent perspective. we were told yesterday by the chairman of our nuclear regulatory commission that it was no water whatsoever in the pond with the spent fuel rods at reactor number four. or maybe a tiny little bit. whereas your government was saying, no, no problem there. which is correct, do you believe? you re a senior member of now the opposition party. you ve been deeply involved in the regulation of the nuclear industry. what is your best information? are we do we face a crisis at that reactor number four in the