Chubu Electric Power Co., which serves central Japan around Nagoya, decided Monday to suspend all operations at its Hamaoka nuclear power plant in Shizuoka Prefecture in response to Prime Minister Naoto Kan's call Friday for the suspension for safety reasons.
His call came about a week after Chubu had disclosed a plan to resume by July the operation of the power plant's No. 3 reactor, which has been undergoing regular checks since November 2010.
Mr. Kan acted rather quickly, apparently because the firm disclosed the plan while the nuclear crisis at Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant is still going on.