Chubu Electric Data Fraud Undermines Japan’s Nuclear Energy Policy

Chubu Electric Power’s falsification of earthquake-risk data at its Hamaoka nuclear power plant has cast doubt on Japan’s nuclear energy policy, Japan Times reported.

The delay in restarting Hamaoka reactors could hurt Chubu Electric’s earnings and hinder the government’s plan to increase the share of nuclear power in the national energy mix. (Photo: Jihara19 Wikimedia Commons) 

Shinsuke Yamanaka, chief of the Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA), said the safety review of the plant’s Nos. 3 and 4 reactors will have to “go back to square one.”

The delay in restarting Hamaoka reactors could hurt Chubu Electric’s earnings and hinder the government’s plan to increase the share of nuclear power in the national energy mix.