Court lifts injunction banning Fukui nuclear restart

Yutaka Nose, mayor of Takahama on the Sea of Japan coast, meets with reporters on Dec. 24, 2015, at the municipal office, after the Fukui District Court lifted an injunction it issued earlier banning Kansai Electric Power Co. from restarting two reactors at its Takahama nuclear plant. Nose hailed the ruling as "sober judgment." (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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