Either way I would not trust anything TEPCO says. It is in Japanese culture to LIE until you are blue in the face, to avoid uncomfortable situations. People will do this until it results in death day after day. That is why there are so many suicides in Japan. Japanese people do not like to face the truth, it messes up their "Wa" or their "peacefulness" and would rather lie and be lied to. This is the real truth of Japan.

By the way this is not my country, I Just live here... I'm very resentful to Japan for this aspect of their culture. This is neither the time nor the place for that bullshit. They need to get serious.

You can bet that whatever they say, whatever they admit to, is already basically common knowledge among those who really pay attention to what's going on. When they are admitting it, it means something worse is going on.