Court rules against suspension of nuclear units in southwestern Japan

A Japanese court on Friday rejected the request of thousands of residents to suspend operations of two reactors at a nuclear power plant in Kagoshima Prefecture in southwestern Japan.The power complex is located near a number of active volcanoes and an active fault but the court said there is no specific risk of a severe accident caused by a natural disaster.In the lawsuit at the Kagoshima District Court, plaintiffs totaling around 3,000 claimed a catastrophic volcanic eruption or an earthquake could hit the No. 1-2 units at Kyushu Electric Power Co.'s Sendai nuclear power plant, currently …READ FULL ARTICLE