The Japanese media is reporting that a ruling LDP Party panel will recommend the break-up of Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), the operator of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant that is still leaking huge amounts of radiation after the 2011 triple disaster.

The Nikkei and Yomiuri Shimbum newspapers say the panel will recommend that the divisions in charge of decommissioning four damaged reactors and treating contaminated water at the plant should be spun off of the main company.  This follows years of lousy clean-up performance and radiation releases from the site. 

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has promised that the government will take primary responsibility for containing contaminated water at Fukushima, saying the situation is under control.  The clean-up process is expected to take at least 30 years and cost more than $100 billion.