The company submitted a plan to restart the reactor in the January-March period in 2026 in an application last year to the government to raise power prices, its president said on Friday.

"But it now looks difficult to achieve the target due to delays in the examination process," Takuro Nozaki, the spokesperson at Hokuriku Electric, told Reuters, adding the utility now aims to restart the reactor as soon as possible after April 2026.

(Reporting by Yuka Obayashi; Editing by Stephen Coates)