Tokyo Electric Power Company faced pressure on Tuesday from angry shareholders to shut all its reactors.
Tepco said on Sunday the first step would be cooling the reactors and spent fuel to a stable level within three months.
Workers were withdrawn from a building at Japan’s earthquake-wrecked nuclear plant on Sunday after potentially lethal levels of radiation were found.
Japanese authorities evacuated workers on Sunday from a reactor building they were working in after high doses of radiation were detected.
A hydrogen explosion rocked the earthquake-stricken nuclear plant in Japan where authorities have been working desperately to avert a meltdown.
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/ 22 February 2010
A document claiming Toyota saved $100m by convincing regulators to agree to a cheap fix for acceleration problems has raised pressure on Akio Toyoda.