Japan court rejects plea to halt Ikata nuclear reactor

A district court rejected on Friday a plea to halt Shikoku Electric Power Co.'s plan to restart a reactor at the Ikata nuclear power plant in western Japan.The decision by the Oita District Court was in line with a high court ruling Tuesday, which accepted an appeal by the power company and gave the green light for the restart of the No. 3 unit at the plant in Ehime Prefecture.It was an about-face from a provisional injunction issued in December by a separate judge from the Hiroshima High Court that required the utility to suspend the reactor until the end of September.The temporary suspens…READ FULL ARTICLE