A court on Friday rejected a plea from residents to halt a reactor operating at the Ikata nuclear power plant in western Japan, amid concerns about the robustness of an evacuation plan in the event of an accident. The Matsuyama District Court ruled against the ...
Some 23,000 people participated in an evacuation drill Friday based on a hypothetical accident involving the No. 3 reactor at Shikoku Electric Power Co.'s Ikata nuclear plant in Ehime Prefecture. It was the second such drill conducted by the prefectural government since the reactor resumed ...
The Ikata nuclear plant began generating electricity Monday, ahead of its planned reconnection to the grid on Sept. 7, operator Shikoku Electric Power Co. said. The plant in Ehime Prefecture is one of only two nuclear power stations currently operating in Japan, despite the government ...
Shikoku Electric Power Co. started loading nuclear fuel Friday into a reactor at its Ikata power plant, paving the way for a scheduled restart next month. The utility plans to reactivate the No. 3 unit at the plant in Ehime Prefecture on July 26. The ...
The Ehime Prefectural Assembly consented Friday to a plan to restart a nuclear power plant despite lingering safety concerns from the 2011 Fukushima core meltdowns. The acceptance of a petition for reactivating the No. 3 reactor at Shikoku Electric Power Co.'s Ikata plant and the ...
The municipal assembly in Ikata, a small town in Ehime Prefecture, approves reactivation of the nuclear power plant there.
Tokihiro Nakamura was re-elected governor of Ehime Prefecture on Sunday, defeating a challenger backed by the Japanese Communist Party to secure a second four-year term. The focus of the campaign was limited to Nakamura's handling of prefectural affairs. Regarding the potential restart of Shikoku Electric Power ...
Preparing for the worst-case scenario of a meltdown at the Ikata nuclear plant, Ehime Prefecture holds its first emergency drill for a massive leak of radioactive materials.
On the far western edge of Shikoku, Ehime's Sada Misaki Peninsula juts out into the Seto Inland Sea. It's a long sliver of land home to several species of hawk and several varieties of the prefecture's famous "mikan" oranges. It's also home to the Ikata ...
