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Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe has claimed that the problems at the Fukushima power plant are under control.

But stories keep percolating out of the country raising questions about the state of the nuclear reactors in the area crippled by a March 2011 earthquake and tsunami.

Russia Today has reported that a commentator on Japan's Radio 1 resigned after he was instructed not to discuss the nuclear accident until after a gubernatorial election.

And this commentator, Toru Nakakita, is an economics professor at the University of Toyo in Tokyo.

Nakakita quit as a result of the censorship order.

Nuclear energy is reportedly a major issue in the election.

Here's part of the Russia Today report: