The Osaka district court has revoked the operating permits for two nuclear power reactors at Kansai Electric Power Company’s Ohi nuclear power station in Fukui prefecture, western Japan, the utility said.
The permits had been granted by the country’s nuclear regulator, the Nuclear Regulation Authority. According to Kyodo news agency this is the first time a Japanese court has challenged safety assessments by the regulator under tougher safety standards imposed after the 2011 Fukushima-Daiichi disaster.
The court ruled in favour of about 130 plaintiffs who claimed that the Ohi-3 and -4 reactors are vulnerable to major earthquakes, according to Kyodo.
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