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Japan / Regulator Suspends Safety Checks At Tsuruga Nuclear Plant Following ‘Data Falsification’

By David Dalton
19 August 2021

Regulator Suspends Safety Checks At Tsuruga Nuclear Plant Following ‘Data Falsification’
The Tsuruga nuclear power station, where the operator wants to restart Unit 2. Courtesy Wikimedia Commons.
Japan’s nuclear regulator has suspended its safety checks of Unit 2 at the Tsuruga nuclear power station in Fukui Prefecture after accusing the operator of falsifying data about a geological fault that runs directly beneath one of the plant’s two plants.

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