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  1. alojapan.com/1511878/kyoto-dis Kyoto District Court rejects suit seeking halt of Oi nuclear plant #Fukui #JapaneseCourts #KEPCO #Kyoto #KyotoNews #news #NuclearEnergy #ôi #RESTARTS #京都 #京都府 KYOTO – A district court on Tuesday rejected a lawsuit seeking an injunction to suspend operations at the No. 3 and No. 4 reactors at Kansai Electric Power’s Oi nuclear plant in Fukui Prefecture. Akira Saito, presiding judge at the Kyoto District Court, ruled against the petition filed

  2. The amount of spent fuel generated at Japanese nuclear power plants that were reactivated under new safety standards totaled about 1,450 tons as of the end of May this year, sources said. japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/06/ #japan #nuclearenergy #nuclearwaste #fukushima #tepco #kepco #311 #restarts

  3. The amount of spent fuel generated at Japanese nuclear power plants that were reactivated under new safety standards totaled about 1,450 tons as of the end of May this year, sources said. japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/06/ #japan #nuclearenergy #nuclearwaste #fukushima #tepco #kepco #311 #restarts

  4. A cargo ship carrying plutonium-uranium mixed oxide, or MOX, fuel produced in France has arrived at Kansai Electric Power's Takahama nuclear power plant in Fukui Prefecture, informed sources have said. japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/11/ #japan #kepco #takahama #fukui #nuclearenergy #france

  5. A cargo ship carrying plutonium-uranium mixed oxide, or MOX, fuel produced in France has arrived at Kansai Electric Power's Takahama nuclear power plant in Fukui Prefecture, informed sources have said. japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/11/ #japan #kepco #takahama #fukui #nuclearenergy #france

  6. Kansai Electric Power will start a survey early this month to assess whether it can build a new nuclear reactor in or near its Mihama nuclear power plant in Fukui Prefecture, sources said. japantimes.co.jp/business/2025 #business #companies #kepco #nuclearenergy #mihama #utilities #energy #fukui

  7. Kansai Electric Power will start a survey early this month to assess whether it can build a new nuclear reactor in or near its Mihama nuclear power plant in Fukui Prefecture, sources said. japantimes.co.jp/business/2025 #business #companies #kepco #nuclearenergy #mihama #utilities #energy #fukui

  8. Elliott Investment Management has taken a stake in Japanese regional utility Kansai Electric Power, according to a media report, in the latest move by activist shareholders to squeeze value from Japanese companies. japantimes.co.jp/business/2025 #business #companies #elliottinvestmentmanagement #kepco #nuclearenergy

  9. Elliott Investment Management has taken a stake in Japanese regional utility Kansai Electric Power, according to a media report, in the latest move by activist shareholders to squeeze value from Japanese companies. japantimes.co.jp/business/2025 #business #companies #elliottinvestmentmanagement #kepco #nuclearenergy

  10. Mihama Mayor Hideki Toshima on Monday indicated his willingness to accept Kansai Electric Power Co.'s planned survey for building a new reactor at its Mihama nuclear power plant in the central Japan town. japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/ #japan #mihama #hidekitoshima #kepco

  11. Mihama Mayor Hideki Toshima on Monday indicated his willingness to accept Kansai Electric Power Co.'s planned survey for building a new reactor at its Mihama nuclear power plant in the central Japan town. japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/ #japan #mihama #hidekitoshima #kepco

  12. Nagoya District Court has dismissed lawsuits seeking to revoke decisions by the Japanese Nuclear Regulation Authority to extend the operating lifespans of three aging nuclear reactors in Fukui Prefecture. japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/03/ #japan #crimelegal #nagoya #fukui #japanesecourts #nuclearenergy #kepco

  13. Nagoya District Court has dismissed lawsuits seeking to revoke decisions by the Japanese Nuclear Regulation Authority to extend the operating lifespans of three aging nuclear reactors in Fukui Prefecture. japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/03/ #japan #crimelegal #nagoya #fukui #japanesecourts #nuclearenergy #kepco

  14. Kansai Electric Power on Thursday presented to Fukui Prefecture a proposal to double the amount of spent nuclear fuel it will ship from its nuclear plants in the prefecture to France. japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/02/ #japan #nuclearenergy #nuclearwaste #restarts #fukui #aomori #france #kepco

  15. Kansai Electric Power on Thursday presented to Fukui Prefecture a proposal to double the amount of spent nuclear fuel it will ship from its nuclear plants in the prefecture to France. japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/02/ #japan #nuclearenergy #nuclearwaste #restarts #fukui #aomori #france #kepco

  16. From 2007:

    "Not Again": Yet Another #TEPCO Scandal

    Citizens' Nuclear Information Center

    "Over the years there have been all sorts of cases of data fabrication and falsification at #nuclear, thermal and hydroelectric power plants. Each time the power companies and plant makers apologize and say that they will lance the wound, but then they go and repeat the same behavior over and over again. When Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) reported yet another case of data falsification to the Ministry of Economy Trade and Industry (#METI) the headline in the Fukushima local newspaper the following day (1 February 2007) was 'Not Again!', sigh the local people and the Prefectural government '.

    "The latest scandal began when Asahi Shimbun newspaper reported on 31 October 2006 that #Chugoku Electric Power Company had falsified data for #DoyoDam on the #MatanoRiver. People might assume that the reason for #ChugokuElectric's admission was simply that it had made a judgment that the problem could no longer be concealed once it was leaked to the newspaper. However, there was more behind the admission than meets the eye. Even before this, anti-dam activists had been pursuing TEPCO over suspicious data related to its dams. For example, it had recorded flow measurements that could not possibly have been taken, because the locations were inaccessible due to heavy snow falls. Chugoku Electric's admission should be seen against this background.

    "METI and the Ministry of Land Infrastructure and Transport responded by demanding that all electric power companies check their records. The upshot was that it was discovered that Chugoku Electric was not alone. In fact, it became apparent that all power companies had falsified and fabricated data in relation to such things as subsidence of dam embankments, and alterations to facilities without prior approval.

    "The next major development came on November 15th, when it was revealed that Chugoku Electric had falsified data in relation to releases of hot wastewater at its #Shimonoseki thermal power plant. This led to similar revelations for nuclear power plants owned by TEPCO, #Kansai Electric Power Company (#KEPCO), Tohoku Electric Power Company and Japan Atomic Power Company (#JAPCO). On 10 January 2007 TEPCO submitted a report to METI entitled 'Causes of and measures to prevent a repetition of falsification of sea temperature data at the condenser outlets of #KashiwazakiKariwa Nuclear Power Plant, Reactors 1 and 4'.

    "The report said, 'An investigation of power plants was instigated, because the Shimonoseki thermal power plant case reminded a worker that corrections had been made to sea temperature data.' As a result, falsification (referred to by TEPCO as "corrections") was discovered at Kashiwazaki-Kariwa reactors 1 & 4 and #Fukushima I reactors 1, 4 & 5.

    "The hot wastewater referred to here is seawater, which has been used to cool and condense the steam used to drive the turbines of thermal and nuclear power plants. When the steam from the turbine condenses, its heat is transferred to the coolant, which in this case is seawater. The temperature of the seawater is raised in the process. If the seawater released is too hot, it can affect the ecosystem. Therefore, the temperature at both the intake and outlet points is measured and monitored to ensure that the temperature difference is not too great. At some power plants computers were programmed to record a higher than actual intake temperature, while at others they were programmed to record a lower outlet temperature. The readings were thus falsified to show a lower temperature difference than was really the case.

    "On 31 January 2007 TEPCO released details of data falsification at its nuclear power plants. It admitted to a total of about 200 irregularities. A few examples are discussed below.

    1. During a periodic inspection in May 1992 at Kashiwazaki-Kariwa reactor number 1 (K-K-1), the day before it was to be tested it was discovered that, due to a fault with the electric motor, the residual heat removal pump (part of the Emergency Core Cooling System (ECCS)) was not working. TEPCO staff made some adjustments to make it appear from the central control room that the pump was working. In this way, they were able to trick the METI inspector into awarding a pass for the inspection.

    2. Again at K-K (the reactors are not specified), from around 1995 to 1997, measurements of the concentration of radioactive iodine released from the exhaust stack were made to appear lower than they really were by taking the measurements on the reverse side of the filter. In May 1995 the concentration of radioactivity from rare gases emitted from the exhaust stack of reactor 4 was also falsified.

    3. From 1979 to 1998, in order to pass inspections, internal pressure readings for steam pipes connecting the reactor to the turbines at Fukushima I reactor 1 were falsified to match the specifications in the inspection guidelines. It was said that the specifications were inappropriate and that they were later amended so that falsification ceased to be necessary.

    "There were many instances of malpractice besides these, in relation to periodic inspections and also in other areas. Fabrication and falsification had indeed become standard practice. Investigations are still proceeding and one cannot help feeling that the most serious and dangerous cases are still to come."

    [And indeed it would come, 4 years later!]

    cnic.jp/english/newsletter/nit

    #CitizensNuclearInformatioNcenter #NoNukes #WaterIsLife #OceansAreLife #IAEAHides #TEPCOLies #FukushimaIsntOver #NoDumping #NuclearPowerPlants #RadioactiveWater #RethinkNotRestart #PacificOcean #DataFalsification

  17. From 2007:

    "Not Again": Yet Another #TEPCO Scandal

    Citizens' Nuclear Information Center

    "Over the years there have been all sorts of cases of data fabrication and falsification at #nuclear, thermal and hydroelectric power plants. Each time the power companies and plant makers apologize and say that they will lance the wound, but then they go and repeat the same behavior over and over again. When Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) reported yet another case of data falsification to the Ministry of Economy Trade and Industry (#METI) the headline in the Fukushima local newspaper the following day (1 February 2007) was 'Not Again!', sigh the local people and the Prefectural government '.

    "The latest scandal began when Asahi Shimbun newspaper reported on 31 October 2006 that #Chugoku Electric Power Company had falsified data for #DoyoDam on the #MatanoRiver. People might assume that the reason for #ChugokuElectric's admission was simply that it had made a judgment that the problem could no longer be concealed once it was leaked to the newspaper. However, there was more behind the admission than meets the eye. Even before this, anti-dam activists had been pursuing TEPCO over suspicious data related to its dams. For example, it had recorded flow measurements that could not possibly have been taken, because the locations were inaccessible due to heavy snow falls. Chugoku Electric's admission should be seen against this background.

    "METI and the Ministry of Land Infrastructure and Transport responded by demanding that all electric power companies check their records. The upshot was that it was discovered that Chugoku Electric was not alone. In fact, it became apparent that all power companies had falsified and fabricated data in relation to such things as subsidence of dam embankments, and alterations to facilities without prior approval.

    "The next major development came on November 15th, when it was revealed that Chugoku Electric had falsified data in relation to releases of hot wastewater at its #Shimonoseki thermal power plant. This led to similar revelations for nuclear power plants owned by TEPCO, #Kansai Electric Power Company (#KEPCO), Tohoku Electric Power Company and Japan Atomic Power Company (#JAPCO). On 10 January 2007 TEPCO submitted a report to METI entitled 'Causes of and measures to prevent a repetition of falsification of sea temperature data at the condenser outlets of #KashiwazakiKariwa Nuclear Power Plant, Reactors 1 and 4'.

    "The report said, 'An investigation of power plants was instigated, because the Shimonoseki thermal power plant case reminded a worker that corrections had been made to sea temperature data.' As a result, falsification (referred to by TEPCO as "corrections") was discovered at Kashiwazaki-Kariwa reactors 1 & 4 and #Fukushima I reactors 1, 4 & 5.

    "The hot wastewater referred to here is seawater, which has been used to cool and condense the steam used to drive the turbines of thermal and nuclear power plants. When the steam from the turbine condenses, its heat is transferred to the coolant, which in this case is seawater. The temperature of the seawater is raised in the process. If the seawater released is too hot, it can affect the ecosystem. Therefore, the temperature at both the intake and outlet points is measured and monitored to ensure that the temperature difference is not too great. At some power plants computers were programmed to record a higher than actual intake temperature, while at others they were programmed to record a lower outlet temperature. The readings were thus falsified to show a lower temperature difference than was really the case.

    "On 31 January 2007 TEPCO released details of data falsification at its nuclear power plants. It admitted to a total of about 200 irregularities. A few examples are discussed below.

    1. During a periodic inspection in May 1992 at Kashiwazaki-Kariwa reactor number 1 (K-K-1), the day before it was to be tested it was discovered that, due to a fault with the electric motor, the residual heat removal pump (part of the Emergency Core Cooling System (ECCS)) was not working. TEPCO staff made some adjustments to make it appear from the central control room that the pump was working. In this way, they were able to trick the METI inspector into awarding a pass for the inspection.

    2. Again at K-K (the reactors are not specified), from around 1995 to 1997, measurements of the concentration of radioactive iodine released from the exhaust stack were made to appear lower than they really were by taking the measurements on the reverse side of the filter. In May 1995 the concentration of radioactivity from rare gases emitted from the exhaust stack of reactor 4 was also falsified.

    3. From 1979 to 1998, in order to pass inspections, internal pressure readings for steam pipes connecting the reactor to the turbines at Fukushima I reactor 1 were falsified to match the specifications in the inspection guidelines. It was said that the specifications were inappropriate and that they were later amended so that falsification ceased to be necessary.

    "There were many instances of malpractice besides these, in relation to periodic inspections and also in other areas. Fabrication and falsification had indeed become standard practice. Investigations are still proceeding and one cannot help feeling that the most serious and dangerous cases are still to come."

    [And indeed it would come, 4 years later!]

    cnic.jp/english/newsletter/nit

    #CitizensNuclearInformatioNcenter #NoNukes #WaterIsLife #OceansAreLife #IAEAHides #TEPCOLies #FukushimaIsntOver #NoDumping #NuclearPowerPlants #RadioactiveWater #RethinkNotRestart #PacificOcean #DataFalsification

  18. via my friend
    @LeilaniAthenai1 (on X)
    Posted July 25, 2024

    #Nuclear Regulatory Authority rejects approval of safety for Kansai electric's (#Kepco) Tsuruga #nuke R2 to restart.

    "Possible active fault underneath"

    1st case NRA said NO.

    NRA already let Kepco restart 7 reactors,& Kishida eyes new nuke PLs

    tokyo-np.co.jp/article/343049

    #Fukushima #RethinkNotRestart #NoNukes

  19. via my friend
    @LeilaniAthenai1 (on X)
    Posted July 25, 2024

    #Nuclear Regulatory Authority rejects approval of safety for Kansai electric's (#Kepco) Tsuruga #nuke R2 to restart.

    "Possible active fault underneath"

    1st case NRA said NO.

    NRA already let Kepco restart 7 reactors,& Kishida eyes new nuke PLs

    tokyo-np.co.jp/article/343049

    #Fukushima #RethinkNotRestart #NoNukes

  20. Japan's Nuclear Regulation Authority on Wednesday approved extensions of the operational periods for the Nos. 3 and 4 reactors at Kansai Electric Power's Oi nuclear plant. japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/06/ #japan #nuclearenergy #fukui #kepco #nra

  21. Japan's Nuclear Regulation Authority on Wednesday approved extensions of the operational periods for the Nos. 3 and 4 reactors at Kansai Electric Power's Oi nuclear plant. japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/06/ #japan #nuclearenergy #fukui #kepco #nra

  22. The Nuclear Regulation Authority approved operating life extensions of up to 20 years for two more reactors at Kansai Electric Power's Takahama nuclear power plant in Fukui Prefecture. japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/05/ #japan #kepco #takahama #nuclearenergy #nra

  23. The Nuclear Regulation Authority approved operating life extensions of up to 20 years for two more reactors at Kansai Electric Power's Takahama nuclear power plant in Fukui Prefecture. japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/05/ #japan #kepco #takahama #nuclearenergy #nra

  24. The Fukui District Court has rejected petitions to suspend aging nuclear reactors at two Kansai Electric Power plants in Fukui Prefecture, on the basis that the plaintiffs did not "sufficiently explain specific dangers." japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/03/ #japan #crimelegal #kepco #mihama #takahama #nuclearenergy #fukui #japanesecourts

  25. The Fukui District Court has rejected petitions to suspend aging nuclear reactors at two Kansai Electric Power plants in Fukui Prefecture, on the basis that the plaintiffs did not "sufficiently explain specific dangers." japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/03/ #japan #crimelegal #kepco #mihama #takahama #nuclearenergy #fukui #japanesecourts

  26. The Osaka High Court has decided against an injunction to halt the No. 3 unit of the Mihama power plant in Fukui Prefecture, saying it poses "no specific danger." japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/03/ #japan #fukui #mihama #kepco #japanesecourts #nuclearenergy

  27. The Osaka High Court has decided against an injunction to halt the No. 3 unit of the Mihama power plant in Fukui Prefecture, saying it poses "no specific danger." japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/03/ #japan #fukui #mihama #kepco #japanesecourts #nuclearenergy

  28. Nicht nur bei #EdF ist das Geschäft mit der #Kernkraft hoch defizitär: "Süd-Korea hat mit seinen staatl. Atomkraftwerken einen Rekordverlust von 25 Mrd. US-Dollar eingefahren… und nun insges. Schulden in Höhe von 149 Mrd. USD nur mit dem Atomgeschäft gemacht."
    #KEPCO
    energiewende.eu/zustand-der-ke

  29. Nicht nur bei #EdF ist das Geschäft mit der #Kernkraft hoch defizitär: "Süd-Korea hat mit seinen staatl. Atomkraftwerken einen Rekordverlust von 25 Mrd. US-Dollar eingefahren… und nun insges. Schulden in Höhe von 149 Mrd. USD nur mit dem Atomgeschäft gemacht."
    #KEPCO
    energiewende.eu/zustand-der-ke

  30. #KITA, alongside Ukrainian and Polish partners, held the Rebuild #Ukraine Business Dialogue in #Poland on Oct. 13 and discussed Ukraine's reconstruction.

    #Korean firms like #POSCO and #KEPCO showed interest in contributing to the $150.5 billion project.

    businesskorea.co.kr/news/artic

  31. #KITA, alongside Ukrainian and Polish partners, held the Rebuild #Ukraine Business Dialogue in #Poland on Oct. 13 and discussed Ukraine's reconstruction.

    #Korean firms like #POSCO and #KEPCO showed interest in contributing to the $150.5 billion project.

    businesskorea.co.kr/news/artic

  32. #DerStandard: "#Osaka - Jahrzehntealter #Atomreaktor in #Japan darf am Netz bleiben"

    ".. Gerichtsentscheid erlaubt .. Fortbestand des mehr als 40 Jahre alten AKWs #Mihama. Nach ..Fukushima-Katastrophe war er bis September 2021 zehn Jahre lang heruntergefahren."

    "Der Block 3 in der Präfektur Fukui ging 1976 in Betrieb. Nach .. Atomkatastrophe in Fukushima 2011 war er zehn Jahre lang vom Netz."

    derstandard.de/story/200014194

    #Atomkraft #Kernenergie #Kepco

  33. Block 3 des Atomkraftwerks Mihama, der nach dem Super-GAU von Fukushima Daiichi vom Netz ging, ist nun wieder im kommerziellen Betrieb. Altes japanisches Atomkraftwerk Mihama fährt wieder ans Netz