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Shikoku Electric Power Ikata Nuclear Power Plant. (From right) Units 3, 2, 1 = 10th, Ikata City, Ehime Prefecture (from Kyodo News helicopter)
Shikoku Electric Power Company (Ehime Prefecture) Ikata Nuclear Power Plant Unit 3 ordered to prohibit operation of Hiroshima High Court interim disposition decision (January 2020). On the day, Shikoku Electric Power Co., Inc. acknowledged the objection and decided to allow the operation.
Unit 3 of the Ikata Nuclear Power Plant was closed for periodic inspections since December 2019 and the construction of a counter-terrorism facility (a facility to deal with specific serious accidents, etc.) required by the new standards. regulations created after TEPCO’s Fukushima accident. Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant is Up and Running … Following the Hiroshima High Court decision, Shikoku Electric Power Co., Inc. aims to restart operations after October this year after completing regular inspections and constructions.
The Hiroshima High Court (Judge Mori Ichidake) decision in January last year noted that “Shikoku Electric Power’s seismic and volcanic risk assessment and investigation are insufficient” and said there was no problem with safety. Judging that there is an error in the judgment of. The operation of the nuclear power plant was prohibited until the process is dictated in the process in the Iwakuni branch of the Yamaguchi District Court.
The interim provision was submitted by three residents living on three islands in the eastern part of Yamaguchi Prefecture, 50 kilometers from the Ikata Nuclear Power Plant. The main problems are the existence of active faults on the north coast of the Sadamisaki peninsula, where the nuclear power plant is located, the assumption of seismic shocks as a guide for seismic design and the assessment of volcanic risk in Aso Caldera, Prefecture. by Kumamoto. , which is about 130 km away. Residents complained that “Shikoku Electric Power Co., Inc.’s active fault investigation is insufficient and the impact assessment of volcanic eruptions is underestimated.”
In this opposition, the Shikoku Electric Power Company confirmed that there were no active faults by detailed exploration of maritime sound waves and argued that the huge eruption “was not imminent”.
