Nuke Info Tokyo 1990

NUKE INFO TOKYO 20 (Nov. /Dec. 1990)

• Citizens Visit Chernobyl
• Fukushima II-3 Re-started Despite Referendum
• Plutonium : 50 Years on – Growing Skepticism About The Rationale of Pu Recycling
• “Low – level Storage” is Actually “High – level Dumping”
• Hidaka Scraps Nuclear Plant for Good
• Anti-Nuke Groups Active Around Japan – Toyonakamura Energy Cooperative
• News Watch
  — IAEA Seminar Held in Aomori
  — Nuclear Fuel Cargo Loaded with Explosive Materials!
  — No-HLW Regulation Rejected by Okayama Pref
  — Joint-research Agreement Reached with China on HLW Disposal
  — Engineers to visit China Assist with N-Power Plant
  — Takahama 2 Changes Damaged Plugs
  — Hitachi & Bechtel Revise Contract
  — Mass Protest Against N-Waste Dump in Korea

NUKE INFO TOKYO 19 (Sep. /Oct. 1990)

• Fukushima II-3 Struggles Continue
• A Critique of the 1990 lCRP Draft Recommendations for Radiation Standards
• Hokkaido Government Opposes HLW Plan in Horonobe
• Anti-Nuke Who’s Who – Kyoko Kimura
• Workers’ Radiation Exposure in 1989
• News Watch
  — Maruki Museum Lamps Lit by Solar Power
  — Fishermen Veto Hidaka Nuclear Power Plant Again
  — Petition to Demand NO-HLW Regulation for Okayama Prefecture
  — Radioactivity Detected in Titanium Waste
  — Maki Mayoral Candidates Compete for Nuclear Freeze Vote
  — Mutsu Fails Tests Again

NUKE INFO TOKYO 18 (July /Aug. 1990)

• TEPC0 Debates Nuclear Issue
• Anti-Nuke Shareholders Attend AGMs
• Opposition Boycotts Public Hearing on Construction of Kashiwazaki No.6 and 7
• 40 More N-Plants Needed? – Long Term Energy Outlook
• Significant Incidents at Nuclear Plants (Aug. ~ Dec. 1989)
• Availability Down Again
• News Watch
  — Fukushima II Shuts Down
  — Mitsubishi May Build British N-Plant
  — Damage Found in 598 SG Tubes in Takahama 2
  — MITI Okays Start Up of Fukushima II-3
  — Loop-type Chosen for FBR Demonstration Reactor

NUKE INFO TOKYO 17 (May /June 1990)

• Three-day Anti-Nuke Festival in Tokyo
• Ales Adamovitch
• Alexander Jacovlev
• Sebastian Pflugbeil
• Ahn Jung-Sun
• Earth Day in Seoul
• Cycle Rally Held in India
• Anti-Nuke Groups Active Around Japan – Suzu City Residents Against Nuclear Power
• Significant Incidents at Nuclear Plants (Jan. ~ July 1989)
• News Watch
  — Are Irradiated Potatoes Really Safe?
  — Iwaishima Fishermen’s Co-op Reject Preparatory Research
  — Kashiwazaki-kariwa Unit 5 Starts Operation
  — Annual Power Plant Construction Plan Revealed
  –“Public” Hearing on LLW Facility Held
  — High Court Rejects Residents’ Appeal
  — Lower Capacity Factors

NUKE INFO TOKYO 16 (Mar. /Apr. 1990)

• Mutsu Experiment Restarts Amid Protests
• Plutonium – Do We Really Need It?
• MITI Committee Issues Controversial Reports on Fukushima II Accident
• Protest Greets Asian Nuclear Confab
• Nuclear Exports to Third World Countries Draws Concern
• Significant Incidents at Nuclear Plants (Sep. ~ Dec. 1988)
• News Watch
  — LLW Disposal Facility Passes STA Safety Check
  –“There Can’t Be a Serious Accident,” Says NSC
  — CRIEPI Announces Method of Shortening TRU Half Life
  — Japan-US Conduct Joint Experiment on New Monitoring Technique
  — Kashiwazaki Unit 2 Reactor Starts Test Run

NUKE INFO TOKYO 15 (Jan. /Feb. 1990)

• Nuclear Fuel Facility Election
• Phase-Out Petition to be Submitted
• Fukushima II-3 to Restart Despite Safety Concern
• Nuclear Power Cheapest?
• Dairy Farmers Concerned about Contaminated Feed
• Anti-Nuke Who’s Who – Sonoko Kitsugawa
• Plutonium Issue Still Hot
• News Watch
  — Hibakusha Support Bill Passed by Upper House
  — Tokyo Univ. Rapped for Slack RI Management
  — Mitsubishi Tries to Sell Reactor to China
  — Nuclear Industry on the Decline
  — 420 Billion Nuclear Power Budget for FY1990
  — Funds for Nuclear Research Still Expanding