Plant Operation

Kepco Files Appeal To High Court Over Takahama Shutdowns

By David Dalton
15 July 2016

15 Jul (NucNet): Japan's Kansai Electric Power Company (Kepco) has filed an appeal to the Osaka High Court seeking to allow it to restart its Takahama-3 and -4 reactors in Fukui Prefecture, which have been offline since March. The appeal aims to reverse a ruling earlier this week by the Otsu District Court, which rejected the utility's request to remove a temporary injunction to shut the reactors on safety grounds. The Otsu District Court issued that injunction in March following a petition filed by 29 residents of Shiga Prefecture, to the south of Fukui, claiming there were doubts about the station’s seismic standards and about new regulatory standards brought in following the March 2011 Fukushima-Daiichi accident. Kyushu Electric Power Company’s Sendai-1 and -2 are the only reactors operating in Japan out of a total of 42 commercially operable units. Most of the country’s reactors were shut immediately after the accident at Fukushima-Daiichi.

Pen Use this content

Related