A man drove his truck into the compound of a nuclear power plant on Thursday just miles from Japan's quake-stricken reactors, managing to evade police for two hours and embarrassing the country's already heavily criticised nuclear authorities. He had driven inside the government's 20 km (12.5 mile) evacuation zone around the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant which has been leaking radiation after it was by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.
The man's motives were unclear but he appears to have been a right-wing activist. Apart from breaking down a gate to get in, he caused no other damage.
"At 12:21 this afternoon, a man in a propaganda truck drove up to the main gate of Fukushima Daiichi plant and demanded entry. The plant's personnel refused, so the truck then drove to Daini (nuclear plant, 12 km away)," Hidehiko Nishiyama, deputy director-general of the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency, told a daily news briefing.
"Being refused entry at the main gate there, he went around to the western side gate, rammed it, and entered," said Nishiyama, who looked surprised at the interest shown by reporters in the incident. (read more)
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