On January 13, 2012, we submitted an application to NISA that will allow
us to amend the Safety Regulations at the Nuclear Reactor Facilities* of
Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. The purpose was to implement change
in the organizational structure of Daiichi Stabilization Centre in order
to manage medium-and-long term tasks, and implement revisions in
accordance with the actual operations at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power
Station.

A summary of the application of the amendment of the Safety Regulations
for the Nuclear Reactor Facilities are as follows.

·Tasks for Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station have been
 shifted to medium-and-long term tasks towards decommissioning such as the
 removal of fuel along with maintaining a continuous cold shutdown.
 Organizational changes were implemented in order to proceed with the
 tasks as planned, and changes were made to the organizations and duties
 stated in Articles 4, 5, 123 and 124 and the subjects of related articles
 in Chapter 12.
·In consideration of actual operating conditions at Fukushima
 Daiichi Nuclear Power Station, we revised the related articles in Chapter
 12.
                                     (Previously announced on January 13)

Subsequently, since we clarified description of modification proposal of
Safety Regulations at the Nuclear Reactor Facilities of Fukushima Daiichi
Nuclear Power Plant that we submitted this time, we submitted revision of
application to amend the nuclear reactor facility safety regulations for
Nuclear Reactor Facilities at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant to
NISA today.

Attachment: Comparison table of the revision of the nuclear reactor  
            facility safety regulations at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear 
            Power Plant (PDF 20.2KB) 

* The aforementioned attachment is only available in Japanese. We 
  apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

* Safety regulations for nuclear reactor facilities
  Per Article 37 Clause 1 of the Law on the Regulation of Nuclear Sources,
  Materials, Nuclear Fuel Material and Reactors, this sets forth the basic
  stipulations for nuclear operators to safely operate nuclear power
  stations (operations management, fuel management, radiation management,
  emergency procedures, etc.) that have been approved by the government.