A court in Japan issued an injunction Tuesday blocking a power company from restarting two of its nuclear reactors.
Nuclear regulators had already cleared Kansai Electric Power to restart the No. 3 and No. 4 reactors at a plant in the western province of Fukui according to new standards put in place following the 2011 earthquake and tsunami at the Fukushima nuclear plant.
But residents challenged the plan to resume operations later this year, saying the new standards were not sufficient to protect against a powerful earthquake.
Kansai said it would appeal the ruling.