TEPCO under fire over handling of Fukushima crisis

Critics are accusing the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), owner of the severely damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station, of understating the scale of the crisis it faced early on, and failing to call in outside help that might have avoided the current and ongoing leakage.

Though outsiders were initially sympathetic to TEPCO, the consensus is now that it should have been more open about the situation, and sought international help and advice earlier.