Kobe Steel President and CEO Hiroya Kawasaki in Tokyo, Japan, October 12, 2017. Reuters/Toru Hanai

Kobe Steel President and CEO Hiroya Kawasaki in Tokyo, Japan, October 12, 2017. Reuters/Toru Hanai

The steelmaker is embroiled in the early days of disclosing it falsified steel manufacturing data for a vast range of products, and nuclear power plants were among its customers