TEPCO to be banned from restarting nuclear plant over safety flaws

Japan's nuclear regulatory body decided Wednesday to effectively ban Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. from restarting a nuclear plant on the Sea of Japan coast for around a year and a half after the complex was found to have serious safety flaws.The Nuclear Regulation Authority agreed at its meeting to bar the company from transporting nuclear fuel stored at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant in Niigata Prefecture or loading it into the reactors. The decision is a heavy blow to TEPCO, which saw the restart of the plant as a main pillar of its reconstruction plan following the nuclear cr…READ FULL ARTICLE