At the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Station in Niigata Prefecture, in September, when a worker of a TEPCO partner company entered an area requiring anti-terrorism measures, it was found that he had entered by presenting a pass certificate for a different gate. The director apologized.
According to TEPCO, on September 29, when a worker of a cooperating company entered an area called "peripheral protection area" on the premises of the power plant, which required counterterrorism measures, he presented a pass certificate of a different gate and entered. about it.
It is said that this worker also had a pass card that he had to show, but the gate guard took time to check the other documents presented together and allowed the pass without noticing that it was from a different gate. That is.
Takeyuki Inagaki, director of the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant, apologized for the cause of insufficient confirmation of the pass, and said, "It is not a malicious mistake, but it should be strictly checked as a business operator handling nuclear materials, and we would like to strengthen security guidance." Said.
TEPCO is aiming to restart Units 6 and 7 of the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant, but the problems of counterterrorism have become clear one after another, and full-scale inspections by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission have begun last month.