The director of the Japanese “Fukushima” NPP Masao Yoshida confessed during an interview with reporters that during the first week after the March accident he and other co-workers have been near to death several times.

According to him, the first week was the most difficult as it was not possible to make any forecasts, he had even reconciled with inevitable death, Kyodo agency informed.

The Japanese authorities allowed reporters to visit the NPP in order to show what they have achieved in eliminating the accident results so far.

Japanese Minister for the Elimination of Nuclear Accidents Gauci Hosono announced that they counting to fully eliminate the damages caused by the accident in 30 years.