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The head of Tokyo Electric Power Co. was refused a meeting with the governor of Fukushima,  nike running shoes onlinewhere the utility is battling radiation leaks from its atomic station at the center of Japan’s worst civilian nuclear disaster.

Masataka Shimizu, president of the utility known as Tepco, asked to meet Yuhei Sato while visiting the prefectural capital today and was turned down, company spokesman Kazuo Yamanaka said. The governor also declined a meeting on March 22.

Shimizu, 66, will visit Tepco’s offsite center for managing the Fukushima Dai-Ichi station and meet a national government official on his first trip to the city since an earthquake and tsunami damaged the plant one month ago. Protests were held in Tokyo yesterday as public anger over Tepco’s response to the crisis grows.

“Japan needs to investigate what happened and determine what actions should be taken at other nuclear plants and explain this to the Japanese people and the world,” said Tadashi Narabayashi, a professor of nuclear engineering at Hokkaido University. “That will help restore trust in nuclear power.”

Shimizu, discharged from hospital last week following treatment for hypertension due to the crisis, is making a second public appearance since the March 11 earthquake. He is due to meet Motohisa Ikeda, a vice minister from the trade ministry representing the national government in the prefecture, and will hold a press conference after the meeting in Fukushima city, about 240 kilometers (150 miles) north of Tokyo, according to Tepco spokesman Jun Nakagawa.

Tepco is using emergency equipment tocheap nike mens acg sandals 2011  cool reactors damaged at the Fukushima Dai-Ichi station after backup generators were knocked out by the tsunami.

The utility is trying to remove highly contaminated water that’s holding up efforts to get the cooling pumps working and prevent further explosions after blasts damaged reactor containment vessels, releasing radiation into the air and sea and tainting food.

Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan will address the nation later today, as the crisis enters its second month. More than 60 percent of voters disapprove of Kan’s handling of the nuclear disaster, according to a Yomiuri newspaper poll published on April 4.

The magnitude-9 earthquake, Japan’s strongest on record, and tsunami left about 27,500 dead or missing, according to Japan’s National Police Agency. The government has estimated the damage at 25 trillion yen ($295 billion).

Tepco has sought to cool reactors by dousing them with millions of liters of water. The utility delayed discharging water with low levels of radioactivity into the sea, Nakagawa said today, holding up plans to transfer more contaminated fluids from a trench at the station’s No. 2 reactor to a condenser.

About 60,000 metric tons of contaminated water lies in the basements of turbine buildings and trenches around the No. 1, 2 and 3 reactors, the company said last week. Tepco needs to drain the water to restore reactor cooling systems in the turbine buildings.

The tsunami rose to as high as 15 meters (49 feet) at the station, Tepco said on April 9. The base of the station is about 10 meters above sea level.

“Most of the area around the reactor buy Reebok ZigTech buildings and turbine housings was swamped,” the utility said in a statement.

Tepco said on April 8 that the station, which has six reactors and is about 220 kilometers north of Tokyo, wasn’t further damaged by a magnitude-7.1 aftershock on April 7.