Japan PM urged to take control as Fukushima operator struggles Aerial view: Tokyo Electric Power Company's tsunami-crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant and its contaminated water storage tanks. More than 30 months after an earthquake triggered the world's worst nuclear disaster in a quarter of a century, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is being told by his own party that Japan's response is failing. The atomic station's operator - Tokyo Electric Power - is not up to the task of managing the clean-up and decommissioning of the Fukushima plant by itself, said Tadamori Oshima, head of a task force in charge of Fukushima's recovery and former vice-president of Mr Abe's Liberal Democratic Party. "I'd like them to form a strong, unified authority" to deal with the nuclear disaster, Mr Oshima said in Tokyo after releasing a report on the recovery effort which suggests the government should take over the task and shoulder the bulk of the costs by treating the clean-up as a public works project. Damage: The destruction at TEPCO's No.3 reactor building in Fukushima. The report is part of a growing recognition that the government needs to take charge at the Fukushima station as weekly reports of contaminated water leaks and accidents are completely at odds with a speech Mr Abe made to the Olympic Committee in September that the situation was "under control." Tokyo won the right to host the Olympic Games in 2020. Tokyo Electric is handling an estimated 11 trillion yen ($118 billion) clean-up of the nuclear plant wrecked by an earthquake and tsunami in 2011. It is also trying to operate as a company generating power for 29 million customers. That is hindering the clean-up by delaying technical solutions the company claims it cannot afford, a government member during the crisis in 2011, Sumio Mabuchi, said. "We've seen that Tokyo Electric has put most of its effort and investments into ensuring business continuity," Mr Mabuchi, a member of the now opposition Democratic Party of Japan, said. It's been very reluctant to spend the kind of money that's needed to resolve this accident. If we allow the situation to continue, it'll never be resolved. Tokyo Electric's concerns about its bottom line derailed an earlier plan to build an underground wall around the Fukushima site to stop groundwater from flooding in and causing a massive backlog of radioactive water, Mr Mabuchi said in Tokyo last month. Two-and-a-half years later, the government has stepped in to build an underground ice-wall around the site with taxpayer funds.