Japan’s TEPCO Tries To Improve Transparency With Nuclear Plant Webcast

Tomorrow morning TEPCO, the operator of the Fukushima nuclear plant damaged by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, will begin a live video stream of the facility.

According to The Wall Street Journal, video will be from “250 meters northwest of Unit No. 1 and will show images of Units Nos. 1-3 in real time, the most heavily damaged of the plant’s six reactors.”

It’s pretty clear that this is a PR move by TEPCO to show that its making an effort towards transparency, while at the same time coming under fire for failing to disclose information about the nuclear accident at the proper times.

In addition to being fed up with TEPCO, the Japanese public reportedly aren’t too happy with Prime Minister Naoto Kan either as a survey today showed that 70 percent of voters want him out of office.

Meanwhile Japan still needs a hand

We reported on Quakebook a while back, the Twitter-sourced book of stories from the Japan earthquake. I’m not sure why, but the Quakebook folks are now giving the book away for free, so grab a copy over on Amazon or on the Sony ebookstore. I suspect they hope that by giving Quakebook to you, that you might be motivated to give something back to Japan. And there are many ways you can do that.