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April 15, 2015

Japanese court halts plan to restart two reactors

  • One concern was spent fuel storage pools lacking proper containment.
    • By MARI YAMAGUCHI
    Associated Press

    TOKYO — A court issued an injunction Tuesday ordering two nuclear reactors in western Japan to stay offline, rejecting regulators' safety approval of the reactors' planned restart later this year, a decision that could further delay the government's restart plans.

    The Fukui District Court ordered the operator, Kansai Electric Power Co., not to restart the No. 3 and No. 4 reactors at the Takahama plant in Fukui prefecture, which is home to about a dozen reactors.


     
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