This month, one of Japan’s biggest utilities admitted to manipulating data to downplay the effect of a large earthquake on a nuclear power plant under review for reopening.
The admission followed a security failure at Japan’s nuclear energy watchdog, in which an employee lost a work phone with contact details of staff involved in nuclear security during a personal trip to China.
The compliance lapses at Chubu Electric and the Nuclear Regulation Authority threaten confidence in Japan’s safety regime as the country tries to reopen its nuclear plants 15 years after a massive quake caused a tsunami that inundated reactors in Fukushima.
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