The nuclear power plant chief who led the life-risking battle to stabilise the crippled Fukushima reactors in Japan two years ago has died of oesophageal cancer.
Masao Yoshida, 58, died on Tuesday in a Tokyo hospital, a spokesman for the nuclear plant's owner, Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco) said.
Officials said his illness was not connected with radiation exposure.
Mr Yoshida, an engineer, was in charge of the Fukushima Daiichi plant in March 2011 when an earthquake and tsunami knocked out its power and cooling systems, causing reactor meltdowns and massive radiation leaks.
Debris in front of the crippled Daiichi plant Recalling the first few days when three reactors suffered meltdowns in succession, Mr Yoshida later said: "There were several instances when I thought we were all going to die here. I feared the plant was getting out of control and we would be finished."
He has been described as a tall man with a loud voice who was liked by his staff and not afraid of standing his ground with his own bosses.
On March 12, after the Unit 1 reactor building had an explosion, the man in charge of the plant kept pumping sea water into the reactor to cool it, ignoring an order to stop from Tepco headquarters after the then-prime minister Naoto Kan had expressed fears that sea water risked triggering a fission chain reaction.
A radiation monitor indicates 131.00 microsieverts per hour Mr Yoshida was initially reprimanded for disobeying but later praised for his judgement that eventually helped keep the reactor from turning worse.
"I bow deeply in respect to his leadership and decisiveness," the former PM said on Twitter.
Mr Yoshida was interviewed for 10 hours by a member of the government-commissioned panel examining the meltdown.
He stepped down in December 2011, citing his illness, after workers had begun to bring the plant under control.
View of the destroyed roof of No 3 reactor building "He literally put his life at risk in dealing with the accident," Tepco president Naomi Hirose said in a statement. "We keep his wishes to our heart and do our utmost for the reconstruction of Fukushima, which he tried to save at all cost."
Former investigator Kunio Yanagida said Mr Yoshida's death was a major loss for future investigations into the disaster at the plant, where radiation levels are still too high to allow a full, on-site examination.
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