World’s Biggest Nuclear Plant May Stay Closed Due to Papers Left on Car Roof

  • Tokyo Electric says papers missing from Kashiwazaki-Kariwa
  • Power plant has been banned from restarting by regulators
Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear plant in Niigata Prefecture.Photographer: Soichiro Koriyama/Bloomberg
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A week after Japanese regulators postponed the restart of the world’s biggest nuclear power plant due to safety lapses, a careless employee working from home added to the company’s woes.

Tokyo Electric Power Co., which operates the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant in Japan’s Niigata prefecture, said an employee placed a stack of documents on top of a car before driving off and losing them.