Japan's Hamaoka nuclear plant restart applications to be withdrawn: source

Chubu Electric Power Co. plans to withdraw its applications for regulatory screening to restart reactors at the Hamaoka nuclear power plant in central Japan, a government source said Friday, in a rare move for a utility in the resource-poor country.Chubu Electric said the same day that it had received a report from a committee investigating the utility's intentional adjustment of seismic data used in the restart screening to meet regulatory requirements.Chairman Satoru Katsuno has told people close to him that he intends to resign over the scandal, sources close to the matter said.President…READ FULL ARTICLE