Japan Obstructing Nuclear Disarmament
--Petition, "Japan Should Take True Leadership Towards Nuclear Abolition", signed by over 230 NGOs and individuals involved in the Japanese abolition movment was handed to the Japanese government on October 15, 2009.
-- Find out how Japan is being used as an excuse to prevent the US from making the single most important policy change necessary to enable a drastic reduction in the size of its nuclear arsenal.
-- See a YouTube video of an appeal from the Union of Concerned Scientists
-- Find out what you can do to protest the Japanese government's obstruction of nuclear disarmament.
The Nuclear Fuel Cycle in Japan
-- Monju restart - like playing Russian Roulette
-- Shipments of MOX fuel have resumed for the first time in six years.
-- Updates on active tests at the Rokkasho reprocessing plant.
-- Japanese official inventory of separated plutonium at December 31, 2008.
Earthquakes and Nuclear Power
-- Hamaoka Nuclear Power Plant Struck By Earthquake
-- Current status of Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant
-- Seismic Design of the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant: a Historical Perspective
Nuclear Energy and Nuclear Weapons
-- Links to articles about Japan's plutonium program
-- Japanese official inventory of separated plutonium at December 31, 2008.
-- Links to campaigns on nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation
-- Japan Obstructing Nuclear Disarmament
-- Japan's Nuclear Ambitions
Anti-Nuke Who`s Who
Latest:: Keiko Kikukawa
Resisting Japan's nuclear fuel cycle with flowers and herbs.
Groups - Column introducing Japanese groups
Latest: Osaka Citizens Against the Mihama, Oi and Takahama Nuclear Power Plants
The group is made up of citizens of Osaka and surrounding regions. The head office of Kansai Electric Power Company (KEPCO), which owns these plants, is located in Osaka.
Citizens' Nuclear Information Center
Akebonobashi Co-op 2F-B, 8-5 Sumiyoshi-cho,
Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, 162-0065, Japan
TEL.03-3357-3800
FAX.03-3357-3801
Map
http://cnic.jp/english/
Based in Tokyo, we are the Citizen`s Nuclear Information Center (CNIC). With a network of scientists, activists, and common citizens, we work to create a nuclear free world.
- Nuke Info Tokyo 134 (January/February 2010)
- Monju Restart: Like Playing Russian Roulette
- Nuclear Plants and Facilities in East Asia and Japan
- Who's Who: Keiko Kikukawa
- News Watch
- Nuke Info Tokyo Archives
- Vietnam Nuclear Power Plan: NGOs Question Cost Estimates - letter sent to the Vietnamese Government by NGOs from Japan, the USA and Europe (January 6, 2009)
- ICNND Report - Civil Society Response: "The pace is too slow: Implementation must be accelerated" (December 15, 2009)
- Genkai-3 Starts Up With MOX Fuel: CNIC Statement of Protest (November 6, 2009)
- NGO Statement Concerning the Hiroshima Meeting of the International Commission on Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament (6 November 2009)
- Japanese Civil Society Calls for Immediate Action for Nuclear Disarmament (19 October 2009) (Statement from Symposium in Hiroshima)
- Japanese Civil Society Takes Action for Nuclear Abolition (15 October 2009)
- Hamaoka Nuclear Power Plant Struck By Earthquake (14 August 2009)
- Public Finance and Export Insurance for Nuclear-Related Exports: NGOs Demand Rigorous Safety Assessment, Information Disclosure and Stakeholder Involvement (27 July 2009)
- Citizens Protest Japanese MOX Shipment: Joint Statement by CNIC, Green Action and Greenpeace Japan (Genkai: 23 May 2009)
- Citizens Protest Japanese MOX Shipment: Joint Statement by CNIC, Green Action and Greenpeace Japan (Hamaoka:18 May 2009)
- Japan Russia Nuclear Cooperation Agreement: Statement by Japanese and Russian Environmental Groups (11 May 2009)
- Kashiwazaki-Kariwa 7 Restart: Statement of Protest (8 May 2009)