FUKUOKA –
A high court has dismissed a petition seeking to halt the operations of the No. 3 and No. 4 reactors at Kyushu Electric Power’s Genkai nuclear power station in southwestern Japan.
The Fukuoka High Court on Tuesday turned down the request filed by about 300 residents near the plant in the town of Genkai in Saga Prefecture, upholding a ruling handed down by the Saga District Court in 2021.
In the lawsuit filed against the government and Kyushu Electric, the plaintiffs argued that the size of a potential earthquake has been underestimated in the calculation of seismic ground motion used for the earthquake-resistant design of the reactors.
AloJapan.com