再稼働要請に応じる姿勢　柏崎刈羽原発巡り東電社長と会談―柏崎市長

　新潟県柏崎市の桜井雅浩市長は２２日午前、同市内で東京電力ホールディングスの小早川智明社長と会談し、同社が早期再稼働を目指す柏崎刈羽原発（同県）について「再稼働の要請がなされた折には、その要請に応えられる段階に至った」と述べた。
　小早川社長は会談で、同原発６、７号機の再稼働後５年以内としていた１～５号機の一部の廃炉判断について、再稼働後２年以内に短縮すると正式に表明した。さらに、７号機の再稼働が見通せる状況になれば、廃炉を含めた電源構成の検討状況について説明すると報告した。
　７号機は６月に再稼働前の安全確認検査を終えており、地元自治体の同意を得られるかどうかが焦点。会談後、記者団の取材に応じた桜井市長は、「東京電力からは誠実な回答がなされた」と評価した上で、「再稼働できるかどうかは新潟県（の判断）にかかっている」と話した。
　また、小早川社長は「現時点でどの基を廃炉にできるかは、まだ決められていない」と述べた。（2024/08/22-12:37）

The mayor of a central Japan city which hosts a part of the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant indicated his willingness Thursday to greenlight the restart of its suspended reactors.
   "We have reached a stage where we can accept a possible request for reactivation," Mayor Masahiro Sakurai of Kashiwazaki, Niigata Prefecture, said in the day's meeting with Tomoaki Kobayakawa, president of Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc., the plant's operator.
   At their meeting in Kashiwazaki, Kobayakawa formally told the mayor of TEPCO's plan to decide on the possible decommissioning of some of the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant's No. 1 to No. 5 reactors within two years after the No. 6 and No. 7 reactors are brought back online. Previously, the company planned to take such steps within five years after the two reactors are restarted.
   Additionally, the president said that TEPCO will explain to the city how it will consider the composition of power supplies, including the possibility of reactor decommissioning, once the resumption of the No. 7 reactor's operations is within sight.
   Safety inspections prior to reactivation were completed at the No. 7 reactor in June. The focus is now on whether TEPCO will be able to gain consent for its restart from local governments.