Japan’s Prime Minister, Kan Naoto, named new people to take over the nuclear plant control and disaster control, within his cabinet.  I didn’t hear the translation clearly, as to who is taking over,  I think the names are Hosono and Magachi.   The reason for the changes is that prior officials in those cabinet posts are not experienced for a “…disaster of unprecedented scale.”

Also, some of the prior cabinet officials have brought lots of complaints to the government.

Cabinet Secretary, Edano Yukio, said they were also getting tough on the companies running the nuclear power plants.  The companies have failed to provide the government with necessary information.  Edano says it is clear that TEPCo withheld critical information from the government at the beginning of the nuclear disaster at Fukushima Daiichi plant.

Edano says there is no way the government can take proper action if the corporations running nuclear plants are not honest about disaster situations.