On the 11th, 10 years after the Great East Japan Earthquake and the accident at TEPCO's Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station, Tomoaki Kobayakawa, president of TEPCO, apologized for the heavy burden on the local community and society. I instructed employees to fulfill their responsibilities to Fukushima.
At TEPCO, in order to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus, President Kobayakawa gave instructions through the Internet at each workplace.
In this, President Kobayakawa said, "I would like to express my deepest condolences to those who died in the Great East Japan Earthquake. I sincerely apologize for that. "
On top of that, "I want all employees to learn from the past and do their best for the reconstruction of Fukushima and the future of Fukushima. We will never let the accident weather and fulfill our responsibilities to Fukushima. Let's do this. "
In addition, based on the problem that employees entered the central control room with another person's ID card at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant in Niigata prefecture, "There is an aspect that employees are being dragged by customs. For example, we must review customs from the past and take root in our corporate culture to continue to improve the safety and quality of our operations. "
About a quarter of the decommissioning period, which is said to take up to 40 years, has passed for the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Is necessary and no concrete route is visible.