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(Bloomberg) – A week after Japanese regulators postponed the restart of the world’s largest nuclear power plant due to safety flaws, a careless employee working from home has caused further trouble for the company. company.
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Tokyo Electric Power Company, which operates the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant in Japan’s Niigata prefecture, said an employee placed a stack of documents on top of a car before driving away and losing them. .
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This is the latest in a string of missteps by the utility company and is likely to further erode the regulator’s confidence in Tepco. Safety flaws and strict regulatory procedures have prevented Japan from restarting most of its nuclear reactors that were shut down after the 2011 Fukushima disaster.
The nation’s nuclear regulator, which oversees the safety protocols of Japan’s remaining 33 reactors, decided just last week to uphold the ban on power plants’ resumption, saying. The agency’s preventive measures are not enough.
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The company discovered the vulnerability when a local resident found some papers related to dealing with fires and floods. The company is still trying to recover 38 pages of documents. Both employees and their managers have been warned, and Tepco said it will ensure all employees follow strict rules about obtaining external documents and information.
(Update details on lost documents at the end)
