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Plutonium and Mickey Mouse钚与米奇鼠 Japans nuclear crisis drags on, exposing profoundfailures both at the company and in national energypolicy 日本核危机悬而未决，暴露出公司和国家能源政策的深刻失败 IT IS daylight, but the darkness inside theheadquarters of the worlds biggest privately ownedelectricity company is sepulchral. Officials, headsbowed, apologise in whispers for the trouble TokyoElectric Power has caused. Their 66-year-old boss, Masataka Shimizu, went intohospital on March 30th, suffering from hypertension; he has been absent for much of the pastthree weeks. In the gloom TEPCOs logo on the walls of the building resembles a mutant MickeyMouse. 外面晴空万里，世界上最大的私有电力公司总部里却是阴云密布。管理人员低着头小声为东京电力公司造成的事故而道歉。东京电力公司66岁的总裁清水正孝由于高血压于3月30日入院，过去的三个多星期里他一直不在公司。而挂在大楼墙上阴沉的东京电力公司商标就像是一只发生突变了的米奇鼠。 About 250km away, at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear-power plant, hundreds of TEPCOemployees and some subcontractors are trying to prevent further leaks of radioactive materialfrom three damaged nuclear reactors and various sources of spent fuel. Their conditions areclose to intolerable. At times, they have been exposed to more radiation in a few hours thanthey are supposed to endure in a year. Their rations are biscuits and canned food. They have ablanket each, and sleep on the floor. Some have lost homes and families to the tsunami thatleft 27,690 dead or missing. TEPCO sees them as soldiers. We dont think they are heroes.They are doing what they should, an official says. | 
