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Data Fabrication for Hamaoka Restart Safety Review Chubu Electric Power Co. announced on January 5 that suspicions had come to light regarding the selection of representative waves in the seismic motion evaluation for...
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CNIC Statement: Data Fabrication Found in Formulating the Basic Earthquake Ground Motion for Hamaoka Nuclear Power Station – We demand a thorough investigation and a comprehensive review of the past screening process.
January 8, 2026 On January 5, Chubu Electric Power announced that it had “suspicions that the selection of representative waves in the ground motion evaluation for the Hamaoka Nuclear Power Station had been conducted...
CNIC Welcomes the Request to Stop All Reactors at Hamaoka NPP Finally, some common sense… Nuke Info Tokyo No. 142
At a press conference on the evening of May 6, Prime Minister Naoto Kan announced an appeal to stop the operation of Chubu Electric’s Hamaoka-4 and 5. Chubu Electric held meetings of its board...
Hamaoka Nuclear Power Station Struck By Earthquake Nuke Info Tokyo No. 132
Chubu Electric Power Company’s Hamaoka Nuclear Power Station was struck by a magnitude 6.5 earthquake at 5:07am on August 11. The epicenter was 37 kilometers from the Hamaoka plant in Suruga Bay, in Shizuoka...
Replacement of Hamaoka Reactors 1 and 2 Nuke Info Tokyo No. 128
On December 22, the Board of Directors of Chubu Electric Power Company decided that it would terminate operations at Hamaoka Reactors No. 1 (540 MW, BWR) and No. 2 (840 MW, BWR) and replace...
Hamaoka Verdict: Passing Judgment on the Judge Nuke Info Tokyo No. 121
The Hamaoka nuclear power plant is safe. You can shake it, but you can’t break it. Thus wrote Judge Akira Miyaoka (long may his name be remembered) of the Shizuoka District Court in his...
Hamaoka-5 Low Pressure Turbine Vane Takes Flight Nuke Info Tokyo No. 113
Only the most hard boiled egg heads took much notice when on June 15 the Hamaoka-5 reactor (ABWR 1380 MW) shut down automatically due to “excessive turbine vibration”, so it was quite a shock...
Insufficient Investigation: Hydrogen Explosion and Water Leak at Hamaoka 1 Nuke Info Tokyo No. 90
The Reports on 1 Submitted On April 24, Chubu Electric Power Company submitted a final report to the Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry (METI) regarding the two accidents at Hamaoka 1 in November...