Court nixes request to halt restart of reactors in southwestern Japan

A district court on Tuesday dismissed a request from some 230 local residents for an injunction to stop the restart of two reactors at Kyushu Electric Power Co.'s Genkai nuclear power plant in the southwestern Japan prefecture of Saga over safety concerns.The Saga District Court handed down the ruling concerning the Nos. 3 and 4 reactors at the complex as the utility prepares for their restart this summer or later, having secured the necessary consent of the governor of Saga and the mayor of Genkai, the town that hosts the four-reactor power station.Units 3 and 4 at the plant have cleared N…READ FULL ARTICLE