1 reactor buildings at Kansai Electric Power Co.'s Takahama nuclear power plant in Takahama town, Fukui prefecture, in this photo taken by Kyodo November 27, 2014. An appeal may take about a year and means continued extra purchases of oil, gas or coal to replace nuclear power generation. Shares in Kansai Electric had ended trading before the court decision. Residents have lodged injunctions against nearby nuclear plants across Japan and lower courts have been increasingly siding with them on safety concerns. The Otsu District Court on March 9 ordered Kansai Electric, Japan's second-biggest utility, to shut down the Takahama reactors in the country's first injunction to halt an operating nuclear plant.

Source: Thanhnien News July 12, 2016 07:07 UTC