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© (c) Copyright Thomson Reuters 2018.High court gives go ahead for restart of Shikoku Electric nuclear reactor
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Chip Star
Will electricity rates drop once it's restarted? If the answer is no, there should be no restart.
kurisupisu
Nuclear power plants are not liable for damages so why in an earth prone country are they operating ?
Stuart hayward
Residents have lodged injunctions against most nuclear plants across Japan. Some of the lower courts have sided with them on safety concerns, but the verdicts are usually overturned in higher courts.
Thats because higher courts are influenced by politicians and government, neither of them work toward the well being of the citizens they represent.
ozziedesigner
@Stuart hayward = spot on mate. In fact that's the same the world over yet people still turn up to vote for these clowns thinking it makes some kind of difference who they vote for. They represent big business not voters period
Aly Rustom
cause what could POSSIBLY go wrong, right??
surprise surprise
Japan- land of brown envelopes and non prying eyes
wanderlust
On most matters in Japan, the higher courts side with and support the establishment; from nuclear power to dam construction, from accepting donations of money to industrial corruption and accounting fraud. The politicians, bureaucrats and judiciary all went to the same universities, so they will look after their own, and in turn be looked after.
Do the hustle
Cue the Doors, “This is the end.....”
Hideomi Kuze
This judgement was too subjective with clear contradiction and had forgotten lesson of Fukushima nuclear disaster.
"Majority people have looked upon catastrophic eruption risk as no problem"
"Social conventions of Japan looks upon nuclear plants as safe unless considerably risk is proven" Judge says,
those are mere impression about Japanese society or general public that this Judge has.
Actuality,public opinion poll about eruption is not done.
According to public opinion poll about restart of nuclear plants,
Majority of Japanese have still opposed nuclear plants.
Besides,while this judge denied Japanese Nuclear Regulation's scientific eruption forecast,demanded "scientific basis of catastrophic eruption" to citizen side.
Moreover,probability of catastrophic eruption may be low but huge natural disaster's probability is originally low.
However,historical huge natural disaster occurred actually in 2011.
and probability of deadly natural disaster has risen year by year since 2011.
smithinjapan
Every single member of the high court and others who permit this should have to sign a contract stating they are in part personally responsible when the next nuclear accident occurs, with a minimum of jail time and part of the damages being paid from their own pockets. Might make them think a little bit before signing off on it.
Brian Wheway
I think that the power plants should be able to start up again so long as they have met the stringent safety criteria, when the plants start making money they should confiscate that money to pay for the decommissioning of the older power plants and invest in solar panels, and other forms of renewable energy, this way the tax payer is not subsidising it.
joyridingonthetitanic
To think that these plants have no safety procedures in place and will not have learnt lessons from previously disasters is ridiculous. As a developed nation Japan is obliged to bring down its carbon footprint just like every one else. Nuclear power, while not ideal, is by far the best start to this process. Renewable energy power plants are coming online but they cant match the output of nuclear yet and without resorting to dirty fossil fuel based plants.
What would people prefer, Japan uses coal and gas increasing CO2 output of uses Nuclear for a while reducing the footprint and paving the way for better more efficient and renewable plants to come online later.
Its a simple choice at the moment, fossil fuel based or nuclear. Renewables can only get you so far and cannot power a population of over 100 million! You'd have to cover japan in solar panels or wind turbines to get the same result.
albaleo
But in this case, was it not the other way round? I may be wrong, but I think initially, the district court allowed the reactor to resume operations (March 2017). It was the high court that imposed a temporary injunction (December 2017) until September of this year.