The governor of Fukui prefecture in western Japan has effectively approved the continued operations of three aging nuclear reactors in the prefecture from next fiscal year.
Tatsuji Sugimoto approved Kansai Electric Power’s revised roadmap for shipping spent nuclear fuel from the Mihama-3, Takahama-1 and Takahama-2 nuclear plants.
Kansai Electric had said it would halt reactor operations if it failed to gain the prefecture’s understanding for the roadmap by the end of the current fiscal year, which ends this month.