Nuclear plant chief hospitalized

By Mari Yamaguchi | China Daily | Updated: 2011-03-31 07:54

Tokyo Electric Power Company, Inc (TEPCO) Chairman Tsunehisa Katsumata (center) and Executive Vice-Presidents Sakae Muto (right) and Takashi Fujimoto bow at a news conference at the company's head office in Tokyo on Wednesday. TEPCO has secured $24 billion in bank loans but said it would not be enough to keep the company running, adding to fears the utility may collapse under the strain of paying for Japan's worst nuclear disaster. Toru Hanai / Reuters

TOKYO - The president of the utility that owns Japan's tsunami-damaged nuclear complex was hospitalized with hypertension as setbacks mounted at the plant, where experts on Wednesday logged the highest radiation yet in nearby seawater.