General Manager at Fukushima Daiichi replaced due to hospitalization

The Asahi Shimbun reports that Tokyo Electric Power Company's General Manager at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, 56 year old Masao Yoshida, stepped down on November 24th when he was hospitalized for undisclosed reasons. Citing privacy concerns, Tepco also refused to disclose Yoshida's level of exposure to hazardous radioactivity. Yoshida has directed Tepco's on-site respone to the earthquake-tsunami-triple reactor meltdown and radioactive waste storage pool fire catastrophe since it began on March 11th.