Regarding the problem of employees entering the central control room of the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Station of TEPCO, Mr. Sarada, the chairman of the Nuclear Regulation Authority, said that it is a serious problem that the security of the nuclear power plant could not prevent unauthorized entry. He showed his intention to examine the cause in detail in the future.
This problem occurred last September at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant in Niigata Prefecture, where an employee of TEPCO who lost his ID card took out another employee's ID card from the locker and illegally entered the central control room.
According to the Regulatory Commission, there are multiple gates to the central control room as a countermeasure against terrorism, and TEPCO employees and security guards of the consignment company confirm their identities, but they pass through without seeing fraud. ..
In one of these places, the ID card authentication error occurred multiple times, and the security staff doubted the difference from the face photo, but did not confirm it sufficiently and rewrote the ID card identification information. It means that he was taking the procedure.
At a press conference on the 10th, Toyoshi Fuketa, chairman of the Regulatory Commission, said that it was a security issue at the nuclear power plant, which requires thorough control against terrorism, and said that it was "serious" and "rewrote the card information." The act was the most shocking, and the meaning of the ID card was lost. "He said that he would examine the cause analysis of TEPCO in detail in the future.
Regarding the security of other electric power companies, he said, "There is a possibility that we will check the handling of ID cards in the future."