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Sat Jun 18, 2016, 04:56 AM Jun 2016

Court upholds injunction to halt Takahama nuclear reactors

Source: Reuters

A Japanese court on Friday upheld an order to keep two reactors at the Takahama nuclear plant closed, operator Kansai Electric Power said, leaving efforts to get a struggling nuclear industry up and running in limbo.

The court decision, upholding a petition from residents living near the plant concerned about safety, keeps the legal battle center stage in a struggle by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's government to restore atomic power five years after the Fukushima disaster.

The Otsu District Court on March 9 ordered Kansai Electric, Japan's second-biggest utility, to shut down the reactors in Fukui Prefecture west of Tokyo, in the country's first injunction to halt an operating nuclear plant.

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Friday's decision denied the utility's attempt to temporarily halt the shutdown order. Kansai has separately requested that the court revoke the injunction, and a decision on that is expected to come sometime soon, possibly by July.

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Read more: http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/AJ201606170022.html



Let's hope they stay shut down permanently.
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