{"id":1713,"date":"2015-12-22T08:45:37","date_gmt":"2015-12-22T08:45:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jaif.or.jp\/en\/?p=1713"},"modified":"2015-12-28T00:53:51","modified_gmt":"2015-12-28T00:53:51","slug":"fukui-governor-consents-to-restarting-takahama-npps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jaif.or.jp\/en\/news\/1713","title":{"rendered":"Fukui Governor Consents to Restarting Takahama NPPs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Earlier, on the 20th<\/span>, METI Minister Motoo Hayashi visited the Fukui prefectural offices and conveyed the national government\u2019s intentions to hold symposiums and explanatory meetings on nuclear energy across the country, and asked the prefecture for its agreement to the restarts. Recognizing the government\u2019s policy positively, Governor Nishikawa expressed his intention to \u201cmake a judgment so as to obtain the people\u2019s confidence.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Takahama Town<\/a> and Fukui Prefectural Assemblies<\/a> had already agreed to restarting the two units. Now that Governor Nishikawa, too, has agreed, the necessary procedures for obtaining local consents have been completed. That said, however, the Fukui District Court on April 14 issued a temporary injunction blocking operation of the Takahama-3 and -4 NPPs. Unless that judgment is reversed, Kansai EP will not be able to restart the two units. On the 24th<\/sup> the Fukui District Court will render its decision on Kansai EP\u2019s appeal filed against the injunction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Earlier, on the 20th, METI Minister Motoo Hayashi visited the Fukui prefectural offices and conveyed the national government\u2019s intentions to hold symposiums and explanatory meetings on nuclear energy across the country, and asked the prefecture for its agreement to the restarts. Recognizing the government\u2019s policy positively, Governor Nishikawa expressed his intention to \u201cmake a judgment […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":945,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,6],"tags":[345,45,91,20,136,32,19,313,17,284,285],"class_list":["post-1713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-npps","tag-court","tag-fukui","tag-governor","tag-kansai","tag-local-government","tag-meti","tag-nra","tag-pre-service-inspection","tag-takahama","tag-takahama-3","tag-takahama-4"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t