Tsuruga Nuclear Power Station Unit 2 deferred due to lack of data Nuclear Regulatory Commission February 7, 22:49

A review meeting of the Nuclear Regulation Authority was held on July 7 for Tsuruga Nuclear Power Station Unit 2 in Fukui Prefecture, and Nippon Nuclear Power Company showed new results of a drilling survey on a fault passing directly below the nuclear power plant, There is no continuity with other faults nearby. " The Regulatory Commission, on the other hand, abandoned the deliberations on Tuesday, claiming that the materials were incomplete.

Regarding the Tsuruga Nuclear Power Station Unit 2 at which NPP aims to restart, the NRA has been reviewing the nuclear power plant for five years, and one of the focuses is on the evaluation of faults that pass directly under the reactor building.

At the review meeting on March 7, Nippon Nuclear Power Company presented a new analysis result of a drilling survey on this fault, and reiterated that "there is no continuity with other faults nearby that are said to be active faults." Insisted.

However, it was found that the submitted data did not contain data from a drilling survey that Nippon Nuclear Power had previously shown to the Regulatory Commission, and members of the committee stated that the data could not be compared and pointed out that the data was incomplete. Was.

The Regulatory Commission requested Nippon Nuclear Power to submit the data again, and deferred the deliberations on July 7.

Nippon Nuclear Power said, "We want to explain the old and new data in the future so that we can understand the process where the misunderstanding is given."