Hitachi, Ltd. and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries have begun discussions on sharing specific roles and defining actual procedures for jointly implementing measures to support recovery efforts at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station, operated by Tokyo Electric Power Company, Inc.
Immediately after the March 11 earthquake struck, Hitachi established a 24-hour “Emergency Response Center for Nuclear Power.” Since then, the company has dispatched approximately 500 engineers, and other workers to the Fukushima site, and is making every possible effort toward restoring electricity within the power plants.
Hitachi has also established a “Fukushima Project Supervisory Office,” and it has launched a joint team of Japanese and American experts, in cooperation with U.S. utility firms and engineering companies. The team is now working to strengthen the short-tem measures currently in place and formulate medium- to long-term countermeasure plans.
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