3 Décembre 2013
December 3, 2013
http://mainichi.jp/english/english/newsselect/news/20131203p2g00m0dm074000c.html
KYOTO (Kyodo) -- More than 800 people joined a lawsuit Tuesday filed last year by 1,100 plaintiffs from 17 prefectures demanding the central government and Kansai Electric Power Co. shut down the utility's Oi nuclear power plant.
The plaintiffs also demanded the government and Kansai Electric pay damages of 10,000 yen per person per month until the Oi plant in Fukui Prefecture, western Japan, is suspended, arguing an accident there would cause irrevocable damage and violate their right to live safely.
The suit was filed with the Kyoto District Court last November.
The plaintiffs said they will continue soliciting more people to join the suit.
Lawsuits to seek suspension of the Oi plant are also pending at the Fukui and Osaka district courts.
All of Japan's 50 commercial reactors are currently offline. About a dozen of them are being checked by the Nuclear Regulation Authority as part of the process toward resuming their operations.