Masataka Shimizu

Masataka Shimizu (born approx 1945; for 2008 January 30, had age 63), worked at TEPCO since 1968; Since 2004 as Managing Director, and since 2006, ad vice-president, and since 2008 till 2011 as president .

Masataka Shimizu become famous in 2011, while under his supervision, the Fukushima disaster had developed since rank 4 to rank 7. That time, Akio Komori was the Managing Director of TEPKO; at the last stage of the disaster, Kan Naoto also used to perform the top vigilance.

Shimizu participated in the WANO Governing Board . Before the Fukushima disaster, Shimizu considered himself as a careful person ; then he had to quit . Shimizu had established the absolute wold's record of losses of his company . After Shimizu, Toshihiro Sano is appointed as new resident . Many authors believe, that the situation with Fukushima in the spring of 2011 gradually got worse and worse not because of the poor managing of the catastrophe, but due to the dangerous design of the TEPCO nuclear reactors. That design implies that at the failure of the cooling systems, a thousand ton of enriched uranium and plutonium vaporize into the atmosphere due to the decay heat, making the most of Honshu island inhabitable (even at the shut down of the chain reaction). The handling of the exploding reactors by the suicide workers saved Japan from the extermination. See the special article Fukushima disaster for the details.

Reporters indicate that Masataka Shimizu failed to handle the Fukushima disaster ; the ignorance might be one of reasons of the developing of the disaster since level 4 to level 7. Similar sabotage took place in the USSR at the Chernobyl disaster, during several days since the explosion, the soviet veterans did not even announce the disaster; first, the large scale emission of unstable isotopes by the exploded reactor was discovered and reported by the observers in the Western Europe.