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Central Japan nuclear unit becomes 1st to fail post-Fukushima safety check
Japan's nuclear watchdog formally decided Wednesday that a reactor in central Japan has failed to pass a safety review needed for its restart, in the first such case since the regulatory body's foundi
2 reactor at the Tsuruga plant, operated by Japan Atomic Power Co., due to the possibility that an active fault runs underneath the offline unit. A safety review team of the NRA concluded in July this year it could not rule out the possibility that an active fault located around 300 meters north of the reactor building stretched right below the facility. Japan revamped its regulatory setup by launching the NRA in 2012 and also introduced a set of new safety requirements in July 2013 to reflect the lessons learned from the disaster at Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc.'s Fukushima Daiichi plant, triggered by a massive earthquake and tsunami in March 2011.
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