World News Tepco chairman and president to step down

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Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Sept. 2 that President Nobuya Minami and Chairman Hiroshi Araki will resign over reported cover-ups of damage at the utility's nuclear power plants.

Tepco advisers Gaishi Hiraiwa, 88, and Sho Nasu, 77, and Vice President Sadaaki Enomoto, 63, will also step down

Minami, 66, said that he would recommend installing another Tepco vice president, 62-year-old Tsunehisa Katsumata, as his successor. Katsumata is in charge of the internal inspection into the cover-ups

The cover-ups surfaced recently with allegations of at least 29 cases - going back to 1986 - of falsified reports on cracks or signs of cracks in the core structure of 13 reactors at the utility's nuclear plant in Niigata Prefecture and two other nuclear plants in Fukushima Prefecture.

Workers employed during the 1980s and 1990s at the three nuclear plants at the center of the cover-ups have told internal investigators that they told contracted technicians to falsify reports to authorities

Company sources have said about 100 Tepco employees are suspected of being involved. Some of the damage, laid to wear and tear, has reportedly been secretly repaired.

原発損傷隠しで東電トップ辞任

東京電力は2日、原発損傷の隠ぺいの責任を取って、南直哉社長と荒木浩会長が辞任すると発表した。

Shukan ST: Sept. 13, 2002

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