Panel: Fault under Japan nuke plant likely active

TOKYO (AP) — A team of Japanese scientists said Thursday that faults underneath a nuclear plant in northern Japan are most likely active, a discovery that could further delay the restart of idled reactors.

The four-member panel commissioned by the Nuclear Regulation Authority said that at least two major faults underneath the Higashidori nuclear plant in Aomori prefecture are believed to be active — a contradiction of operator Tohoku Electric Power Co’s assertion that they are inactive.