In a joint report between The Washington Post and Foreign Policy, it’s been revealed that while Rome burned Tokyo Electric Power Company fiddled.

Apparently, instead of trying to figure out what to do after two of their reactors suffered hydrogen gas explosions, and continued to spew radiation, TEPCo officials were trying to figure out how to build two new reactors!

On March 26 they presented the Fukushima Prefectural government with their plan for new reactors. “It was just unbelievable.”-Nozaki Yoichi, Fukushima Prefectural Planning and Coordination Department

After getting the cold shoulder from local authorities, TEPCo submitted the plan to the Japanese central government on 31 March.  They got the same reaction.

TEPCo is so hated now, in Fukushima Prefecture they’ve covered up their signs for their offices, because they’ve been getting threatening phone calls, and employees are being harassed.

Fukushima Prefectural officials told TEPCo “…to sort out problems on the ground first and stop thinking about new reactors.”

TEPCo officials now say they made a mistake in asking for the new reactors now, and they claim the plan was made before the 11 March disasters. If that’s so, why did they wait until 26 March to present the plan?

What corporate arrogance, to ask for government backing for two new reactors while the ones you have are blowing up and spewing radiation. Baka!