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Friday December 8, 10:05 AMTohoku Elec finds improper nuclear data handlingTOKYO, Dec 8 (Reuters) - Tohoku Electric Power Co. Inc. said on Friday it had found improper changes to data at one of its nuclear power plants, but operational safety was unaffected. A spokesman for Tohoku Electric, Japan's fourth-biggest utility by sales, said improper programming modified data on coolant water temperatures at the 524,000-kilowatt No.1 unit at its Onagawa plant in northern Japan between 1995 and 2001.There was no falsification of data provided to the local or central government because the modified data was not used for reporting purposes, he said. Tohoku's announcement came days after Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) , Japan's largest utility, said it had found data modification that occurred in 1985 and 1988. TEPCO faced stiff criticism after it came to light in 2002 that it had falsified nuclear safety inspection data for more than a decade. |
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