TOKYO, November 30 – RAPSI. Over 1,000 people have filed a lawsuit with the Kyoto District Court against Kansai Electric Power Company’s Ōi plant, seeking to shut down Japan’s only operating nuclear reactors, Kyodo News reported.

The lawsuit was submitted on Thursday on behalf of 1,100 individuals living just outside the Fukui Prefecture, where the nuclear power plant is located.

The lawsuit claims that geological research of the area where the station is located has shown that there are tectonic faults under the plant. The plaintiffs believe that an earthquake would lead to a tragedy similar to the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster in March 2011.

Consequently, the plaintiffs want all the plant’s operating reactors to be shut down and are claiming monthly compensation from Kansai Electric Power Co. and the local government to the value of 10,000 yen (around $123) per person for the potential threat to their lives.

Ōi is Japan’s only nuclear power plant which was granted permission to re-launch its nuclear reactors after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. Currently, two of the reactors are in operation.

The Fukushima nuclear disaster was the worst tragedy of this sort since the Chernobyl accident in the USSR 26 years ago. Four of the plant’s six reactors were flooded and the cooling system broke down as a result of the tsunami caused by a major earthquake which occurred in North East Japan on March 11, 2011. It will take about 40 years to be able to fully dismantle the reactors and clean-up the area.