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Plaintiff’s group heading toward Fukui District Court On May 21, 2014, the Fukui District Court handed down a verdict recognizing outright the plea of residents living within 250 km of the Kansai Electric...
The working group on nuclear wastes, organized under the nuclear energy subcommittee of the electric power industry committee of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry’s Advisory Committee on Natural Resources and Energy, restarted...
by Philip White * Mr. Philip White The national election was held on 16 December amidst general confusion in Japanese politics. Faith in the governing Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) had sunk to an...
Government’s reorganization of JAEC carried out in 2001 forced them to work together with the officials of private-sector companies The Innovative Strategy for Energy and the Environment announced in September 2012 called for a...
Government’s reorganization of JAEC carried out in 2001 forced them to work together with the officials of private-sector companies The Innovative Strategy for Energy and the Environment announced in September 2012 called for...
The government’s Energy and Environment Council (EEC) released its “Innovative Strategy for Energy and the Environment” in the afternoon of September 14, 2012. The innovative strategy was not clearly endorsed by the cabinet. Instead,...
From 5th May this year, all of Japan’s 50 nuclear reactors were shut down. However, stating that Japan’s economy would not be able to survive without nuclear power, and that he would personally take...
“Goodbye to Nuclear Power Plants” Rally attended by 170,000 antinuclear protesters in Yoyogi park, Tokyo. (July 16, 2012) Due to the nuclear disaster in Fukushima in March 2011, it has become impossible for Japan...
Ino Hisamitsu * Table 2: Results of monitoring tests on mother material of Genkai-1 reactor pressure vessel (Continued from Nuke Info Tokyo No. 148) We must first understand the data on which this is...
Hiromitsu Ino * Outline of Neutron Irradiation Embrittlement in Aging Nuclear Power Plants Destruction of a reactor pressure vessel due to neutron irradiation embrittlement should be called an extreme severe accident. If the pressure...
