Today,
on May 21, the Fukui District Court handed down a decision that forbids KEPCO
from restarting the nuclear power units at the Oi Nuclear Power Station. It was
momentous enough to warrant an extra from the
always excitable Sankei Shimbun, it seems.
But
there’s less than meets the eye here. The verdict will not affect the
regulatory process for the Oi units one way or the other. There’s no hurry here
since they were not fast-tracked by the Nuclear Regulatory Authority, and the
Osaka High Court will overturn the verdict on appeal and everything will be as
if nothing had happened.
You
read it hear first.
1 comment:
If the Osaka High Court were to overturn the verdict, that would indeed be newsworthy, because the court of appeal is the Kanazawa branch of the Nagoya High Court. Of course, that is the same branch that ordered the Monju reactor shut down...
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