Tepco anticipates delay in Kashiwazaki-Kariwa restart : Corporate
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Tepco anticipates delay in Kashiwazaki-Kariwa restart : Corporate
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14 April 2021
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Japan s Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) has today issued an administrative order to Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco) preventing it from transporting nuclear fuel stored at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant or loading it into reactors. The order - issued in response to a series of security breaches at the site - will delay Tepco s planned restart of unit 7 at the plant in Niigata Prefecture.
Kashiwazaki-Kariwa (Image: Tepco)
On 27 January this year, Tepco notified the NRA that a contractor has accidently damaged intruder detection equipment at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa site. The company informed the regulator on 12 February that some of the functions related to this equipment had been repaired. However, at that time Tepco said it had found malfunctions in intruder detection equipment at 12 locations on the site and that alternative measures had been implemented. Tepco informed the NRA of three further locations experiencing equipment malfunctions over the follow