On November 21, Governor Hanazumi stated with regard to the central government\u2019s request for understanding on the restart of Units 6 and 7 that \u201cNiigata Prefecture will give its consent after confirming the national government\u2019s response.\u201d He further indicated that his decision should be based on public trust in prefectural governance and expressed his intention to seek the confidence of the prefectural assembly to continue in office.<\/p>\n
\u201cI would like to ask the prefectural assembly to judge whether I should receive its confidence to continue performing my duties as governor, or whether it will choose no confidence,\u201d Hanazumi said, formally requesting a vote of confidence from the assembly.<\/p>\n
Explaining the reasons for his decision to accept the restart, Governor Hanazumi cited the fact that Units 6 and 7 had passed reviews by the Nuclear Regulation Authority<\/span><\/span> and that their safety had been confirmed. He stated that while risks can never be reduced to zero, \u201cI believed that restart cannot be halted simply due to vague anxieties or reasons lacking rational grounds.\u201d<\/p>\n Meanwhile, on December 19, AKAZAWA Ryosei, Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry, said at a post-Cabinet press conference that \u201cthe restart of the Kashiwazaki Kariwa Nuclear Power Plants is extremely important for Japan\u2019s energy policy, from the perspectives of addressing vulnerabilities in power supply in eastern Japan, restraining electricity prices, and securing decarbonized power sources.\u201d The government also indicated that it will steadily advance efforts to deepen public understanding of the restart by providing careful explanations, while strengthening nuclear emergency preparedness, enhancing governance at Tokyo Electric Power Co., and implementing regional development measures that take into account local conditions and requests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On November 21, Governor Hanazumi stated with regard to the central government\u2019s request for understanding on the restart of Units 6 and 7 that \u201cNiigata Prefecture will give its consent after confirming the national government\u2019s response.\u201d He further indicated that his decision should be based on public trust in prefectural governance and expressed his intention […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7519,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[376,1448,995,91,1304,1447,1300,519,32,568,1184,19,313,18,23],"class_list":["post-7734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-abwr","tag-akazawa","tag-commercial-operation","tag-governor","tag-hanazumi","tag-inspection","tag-kariwa","tag-kashiwazaki","tag-meti","tag-niigata","tag-niigata-prefecture","tag-nra","tag-pre-service-inspection","tag-restart","tag-tepco"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jaif.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jaif.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jaif.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jaif.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jaif.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7734"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jaif.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7736,"href":"https:\/\/www.jaif.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7734\/revisions\/7736"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jaif.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jaif.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jaif.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jaif.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}