高浜原発「バックフィット」で提訴　住民ら、国に停止命令求める―名古屋地裁

　原子力規制委員会から設備などの設計を変更するよう命令を受けた関西電力高浜原発３、４号機（福井県）について、福井、愛知両県などの住民９人が５日、国を相手に、災害の防止上十分だと認められるまでの間、同原発の使用を関電に停止させるよう求める訴訟を名古屋地裁に起こした。
　規制委は昨年６月、原発が最新の安全基準に合致していることを要求する「バックフィット制度」に基づき、大山（鳥取県）噴火時の火山灰の影響の想定が不適当などとして、高浜３、４号機を含む３原発の施設の設計見直しを関電に命令。ただ、使用停止命令は見送っていた。（2020/10/05-11:58）

A lawsuit was filed Monday to suspend operations at two reactors at Kansai Electric Power Co.'s Takahama nuclear power plant due to concerns over their measures against natural disasters.
   Nine residents, mostly in the central Japan prefectures of Fukui and Aichi, filed the suit with Nagoya District Court, urging the government to order the suspension of the No. 3 and No. 4 reactors at the Takahama plant in Fukui.
   The residents call for halting the reactors until their measures against natural disasters are confirmed enough.
   In June last year, the Nuclear Regulation Authority ordered Kansai Electric to review the designs of all of its three nuclear plants including Takahama, citing inadequate assessments of the impact of possible volcanic ashes from Mount Daisen in Tottori Prefecture, western Japan.
   The order was based on a rule requiring existing nuclear plants to meet up-to-date safety standards. The NRA did not order Kansai Electric to stop any of the three plants.