A court in Japan has once again dismissed the request of the Japanese citizens to disable the third reactor of the Ikata nuclear power plant (NPP) situated in the country's western prefecture of Ehime, local media reported on Thursday.

A representative office of the Russian state corporation ,Rosatom Japan was opened on Monday in the Japanese capital, a Sputnik correspondent reported.

Former chairman of Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) Tsunehisa Katsumata said in court on Tuesday that a devastating tsunami that led to the 2011 accident at the Fukushima nuclear power plant could not have been predicted, local media reported.

A degradation in concrete quality was discovered at Tihange 2 nuclear power unit in southern Belgium, which was temporarily stopped in September for repairs and maintenance, Engie's Belgian subsidiary Electrabel, the operator of all nuclear power plants in the country, said on Wednesday.

Agneta Rising, the director general of the World Nuclear Association (WNA), called on the global community on Friday to boost efforts to decarbonize economies and increase the use of nuclear power in order to achieve a clean energy future.

Japan considers the call of UN experts to protect workers decontaminating the damaged Fukushima Daichi Nuclear Power Station from possible exploitation and misinformation "regrettable," the UN statement is based on one-sided information, Japan's Permanent Mission to the International Organizations in Geneva said on Friday

The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) has called on the Japanese authorities to protect the more vulnerable workers currently decontaminating the damaged Fukushima Daichi Nuclear Power Station, including migrant workers and homeless people, because they were reportedly being exploited and misinformed about the potential risks of being exposed to harmful nuclear radiation.