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2015 March 25 - 31 [SOCIAL ISSUES]

Fukui governor rejects petitions against restart of nuclear reactors

Fukui Governor Nishikawa Issei on March 24 refused to accept 205,000 signatures opposing the plan to restart offline nuclear reactors which were submitted by a local civic group.

This is the second time for the governor to refuse to accept the petitions since February. This time, civic group members handed the petitions to the chief of the nuclear power safety department of the prefectural government.

Fukui Prefecture, located on the Japan Sea coast, hosts 14 nuclear reactors. The central government is planning to reactivate these reactors after obtaining consent from the prefecture.

In the representations, Wakaizumi Masahito, a co-leader of the civic organization, urged the prefecture to object to the resumption policy, noting that local residents are forced to live in constant fear of a possible nuclear accident.

The prefectural official just said, “I’ll tell my boss that I received these signatures.”


Past related article:
> Fukui’s nuclear disaster evacuation plan full of holes [January 27, 2014]