Two top executives at Japanese nuclear plant operator Chubu Electric Power would step down following a quake data-tampering scandal, the company said in a statement on Monday.President Kingo Hayashi and Chairman Satoru Katsuno would be replaced, the statement said, and the firm would withdraw applications to restart the Nos 3 and 4 reactors at Chubu’s Hamaoka nuclear plant.Japan is moving to revive nuclear power 15 years after an enormous earthquake and tsunami sent reactors at the Fukushima atomic plant into meltdown in 2011.
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MON · 2026-09-14 · 06:11 GMTBRIEF NSR-2026-0914-111112
NSR-2026-0914-111112News Report·SCO·Public Health
Japan’s Chubu Electric bosses resign over quake data-tampering scandal
Chubu Electric Power announced on Monday that its president, Kingo Hayashi, and chairman, Satoru Katsuno, will resign following a scandal involving the tampering of earthquake data. The company stated that these two top executives would be replaced.
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Chubu Electric Power announced on Monday that its president, Kingo Hayashi, and chairman, Satoru Katsuno, will resign following a scandal involving the tampering of earthquake data. The company stated that these two top executives would be replaced. In addition, Chubu Electric Power will withdraw its applications to restart the Nos 3 and 4 reactors at its Hamaoka nuclear plant. This development occurs as Japan seeks to increase its reliance on nuclear power, a policy shift that began after the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster.
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Japan is moving to revive nuclear power 15 years after the Fukushima disaster.
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Chubu Electric Power will withdraw applications to restart reactors 3 and 4 at the Hamaoka nuclear plant.
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President Kingo Hayashi and Chairman Satoru Katsuno will be replaced.
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Two top executives at Chubu Electric Power will step down due to a data-tampering scandal.
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