Nuke Info Tokyo

Shika-2 verdict demands suspension of operations (includes report on new draft earthquake design guidelines)
FBR Report: A feasibility study for institutional preservation
Rokkasho Active Tests: Baku's View (CNIC's Co-Director, Baku Nishio, gives his perspective)
Rokkasho Active Tests: First Leak
2006 Electric Power Supply Plan and Nuclear Industry Developments
Chernobyl 20th Anniversary Symposium in Tokyo
Group Introduction: Kansai Relief for Chernobyl Hibakusha
In Brief
--Rokkasho Uranium Enrichment Plant Verdict
--Another Leak at Rokkasho
News Watch
--Local authority gives green light to Genkai-3 pluthermal plan
--Approval given for the use of MOX fuel at Ikata-3
--Chugoku Electric holds meeting to explain Shimane-2 pluthermal plan
--Damage to reputation from JCO accident recognized
--Data falsification at Higashidoori
--Revision of earthquake design safety guidelines

Nuke Info Tokyo 111 (March/April 2006) (804 KB)

Rokkasho: active tests to begin any day
Project to measure radioactivity released from Rokkasho
Damage and cracking in BWR control rods
Court rules in favor of plaintiffs on Shika-2
Chernobyl 20th Anniversary in Japan
Data: Exports by Japanese nuclear power plant makers
Toshiba gambles on Westinghouse
Anti-Nuke Who's Who: Kazuyuki Takemoto
News Watch
--Pluthermal developments
--Toshiba falsified testing data
--Request for withdrawal of Kumihama Nuclear Power Plan
--Japan-U.S.-French cooperation on sodium-cooled fast breeder reactor
--Eighty-five percent of employees feel anxiety working at nuclear plants
--Material Unaccounted For

Nuke Info Tokyo 110 (January/February 2006) (1 MB)

Can safety be assured in the Monju modifications?
Foreseeing Japan's nuclear future
Nuclear Plants and Facilities in East Asia and Japan (maps)
A mobile nuclear reactor comes to Tokyo Bay
Atomic Energy Commission rubber stamps power companies' plutonium utilization plans
Japanese Nuclear Power Companies' Plutonium Use Plans (English translation)
Group Introduction: Shizuoka Network of Citizens Opposed to the Hamaoka Nuclear Power Plant
• News Watch
  --Toshiba wins bid for Westinghouse
  --Company established for intermediate storage of spent fuel
  --Construction of Shimane-3 launched
  --Mitsubishi Heavy Industries receives two PBMR contracts
  --Mihama-3 suspension order lifted
  --Onagawa-2 resumes operation
  --General Electric and three Japanese firms sign agreement on ESBWR

2005

Nuke Info Tokyo 109 (November/December 2005) (512 KB)

Further delays at Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant
Nuclear Policy Planning Council in review
The birth of Japan Atomic Energy Agency
Management of cosmic ray exposure to aircraft crew
Plutonium inventory: 2004 data and future projections
South Korean nuclear waste dump vote
Anti-Nuke Who's Who: Koshiro Ishimaru
News Watch
--Japan and internationalization of the nuclear fuel cycle
--Uranium contaminated soil shipped to US
--Projects for ITER-related facilities decided
--Agreement for Spent Fuel Interim Storage Facility signed

Report on NPT Review Conference
Pronounced aging of nuclear power plants
2005 Electric Power Supply Plan
Recent Trends in Japanese Nuclear Industry
Final Reports on Mihama-3 Accident
Group Introduction: The Chernobyl Children's Fund
News Watch
--10th shipment of High-Level Radioactive Waste
--Application for permission to construct MOX plant
--Shika Nuclear Power Plant suspended due to a fallen transmission line tower
--Construction Approved for Shimane-3
--Two Nuclear Bills Passed the House of Representatives

Nuke Info Tokyo 105 (March/April 2005) (728 KB)

2004

• 100th Edition of NIT: To our friends in the anti-nuclear movement around the world
• No to Clearance Level
• 2004 Energy Supply Plan
• Pluthermal Developments
• Anti-Nuke Who's Who: Hironori Shinohara
• NEWS WATCH:
  --Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant Project Further Postponed
  --Operational Trials Commence at Hamaoka 5
  --Spent-Fuel Storage Facility Developments
  --Still no Candidates for High-Level Waste Site
  --Japanese Government to sound out the idea of an Asian version of IEA

Nuke Info Tokyo No. 99 (March/April 2004) (936 KB)

• First case of Workers' Compensation for Multiple Myeloma
• Is Japan qualified to undertake reprocessing at Rokkasho?
• Nuclear Plants in East Asia(MAP)
• Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant: exposure of inadequate protective measures against aircraft crashes
• Revelations of Sloppy Management at Nuclear Power Stations
• Anti-Nuke Who’s Who: The Sea and Takeichi Saito
• NEWS WATCH
  --MHI Receives Order for U.S. Repair Work
  --MHI Bids for Reactor Manufacture in China
  --TEPCO Requests Site for Spent Fuel Storage
  --Request for Measures against Exposure to Cosmic Rays
  --A Candidate for the High-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal Site?
  --Nuclear Industry Trends

• Abandoned plans for Suzu and Maki Nuclear Power Plants: the beginning of the end?
• Recent Developments in Nuclear Fusion Research
• Open Debate Held re Fuel Reprocessing
• Defective Welding in Spent Fuel Storage Pool at Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant
• Developments Since Monju Court Decision
• Anti-Nuke Who's Who: Misako Ogawa-- A Municipal Assembly Member Campaigning Against Nuclear Power
• News Watch
  --Is Fukui Prefectural Assembly really prepared to oppose nuclear reactors?
  --FEPCO reconfirms target for pluthermal power generation project, but . . .
  --FNCA ministerial-level meeting: 'Nuclear power should be included in CDM'
  --Nuclear reactor terror response: new organization formed

2003

• Looking Back Over a Year of TEPCOs Cover-up
• Nuclear Fuel Cycle Plan and Plutonium
• Energy Policy Basic Plan
• JCO 4th Anniversary
• Data: Japan's Separated Plutonium Inventory
• Anti-Nuke Who's Who: Kaori Kanda
• News Watch
  --Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant Operation Postponed for One Year
  --Government Agrees to Tax on the Storage of Spent Fuel
  --Mutsu City Council Does Not Approve of a Plebiscite
  --Electric Companies to Give Away Huge Donations to Local Communities
  --MOE Proposes a New Climate Change Tax Scheme
  --Nuclear Safety White Paper

Nuke Info Tokyo No. 96 (July/Aug. 2003) (352 KB)

• Myth of TEPCO's Power Shortage: Tokyo can Survive without nuclear power!
• North American Power Failure
• Workers Radiation Exposure from Replacing Reactor Core Shroud and Recirculation System Pipes
• An Open Discussion about Reprocessing policy was held
• Data: Nuclear Workers' Radiation Exposure and TEPCO Coverup Accident
• Anti-Nuke Who's Who: Dr.Saburo Murata
• News Watch
  --Draft of Energy Basic Plan Compiled
  --Radioactivity Detected in Metal Scraps Exported from Japan to Taiwan
  --The 8th Shipment of High-Level Radioactive Waste from France
  --Approval Given for Construction of Tomari 3
  --Mutsu City Officially Invite a Spent Fuel Storage Facility
  --An Explosion at Fugen - Local Governments Being Put in Confusion

Nuke Info Tokyo No. 95 (May/June 2003) (764 KB)

• Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant: Leakage from Storage Pool, Defective Construction Work, and Escalating Costs
• 'Interim' Storage Facility: Fears that it will become a permanent disposal site
• National Meeting to Give up Nukes on June 7
• DATA: Significant Incidents at Nuclear Power Plants and Nuclear Fuel Facilities in 2002
• Typical Boiling Water Reactor Structure (Diagram)
• Anti-Nuke Who's Who: Yoko Nozaka
• News Watch
  --Tokyo Electric Power Co. Seeks to Reactivate Nuclear Power Reactors
  --The Cost of Dismantling JAERI and JNC's Facility will be 2 Trillion Yen
  --Kagoshima Prefecture Accepts a Survey to be Conducted for the Construction of Sendai 3 unit
  --Onagawa 3 Automatic Shutdown due to an Earthquake
  --Decision Made on the Decommissioning of Musashi Institute of Technology (MIT)'s Reactor

Nuke Info Tokyo No. 94 (March/April 2003) (660 KB)

• Ruling on JCO Accident
• All 17 of TEPCO’s units shut down
• Japan’s electricity liberalization policy
• Japan’s Nuclear Development Plan
• Recent Trends of Nuclear Industry (Diagrams)
• Anti-Nuke Who’s Who: Kiyoshi Yoshimura
• News Watch
  --Municipalities Put Tax on Storage of Spent Fuel
  --FNCA Meets in Naha
  --METI Works Out New Preferential Measures for Nuclear Power

Monju ruling at 2003
Japan’s reprocessing policy and nuclear proliferation in Asia
Data:
--Nuclear Plants and Facilities in Japan
--Nuclear Plants in East Asia
(see CNIC's Data page to locate the latest version of these maps)
Anti-Nuke Who’s who: Tomi Maeda
News Watch
--Citizens File a Complaint against TEPCO
--Suspension of Incoming Spent-Fuel Deliveries
--Second Line Stopped at Uranium Enrichment Plant
--NUMO Begins Inviting Candidate Sites for HLW Disposal Facility
--Introduction of “Defects Standards” Decided

2002

Revelation of Endless N-damage Cover-ups
Mechanism of Core Shroud and its Function
Government Agency Proposes “Defect Standards”
Data: TEPCO's Damage Cover-up and Data Falsification
--Fukushima I: damage cover-up record
--Fukushima II: damage cover-up record
Anti-Nuke Who’s who: Tetsunari Iida
News Watch
--Prefectural Governments of Niigata and Fukushima Completely Retract their Prior Consent to the Plu-Thermal Program
--Even with the Unscheduled Suspension of Reactor Operations, There is Still a Plentiful Supply of Power
--A New Plan to Separate NISA from Nuclear Promotion Administration
--The Fukushima Energy Policy Review Committee Publishes an Interim Report

Nuke Info Tokyo No. 91 (Sep./Oct. 2002) (536 KB)

JCO Criticality Accident Three Years on: Questions Still Unanswered
The 14th International Summer Symposium on Science and the World Affairs
Japanese Separated Plutonium Stockpile as at 2001
Workers’ Exposure at Nuclear Power Plants 1980-2001
TEPCO postponed Plu-thermal plan
Anti-Nuke Who's who: Toshiko Baba
Book Review
"Recent Research Activities about the Chernobyl NPP Accident in Belarus, Ukraine and Russia.", by Dr. Tetsuji Imanaka
News Watch
--ANRE Begins Nuclear Promotion Education in Earnest
--An ANIS’ Assistant Section Chief Arrested on Suspicion of Bribery
--New Construction of Tsuruga 3 and 4 Incorporated into the Government’s Plan
--NFI Begins Preparation for PBMR Fuel Plan
--Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Making a Large-Scale Investment in Plant and Equipment
--Ground-Breaking Ceremony for the Mizumani Underground Research Laboratory

Rethinking Nuclear Energy and Democracy after 9/11
MOX Transportation
DATA: Incidents at Nuclear Facilities
Insufficient Investigation: Explosion and Leak Accident at Hamaoka 1
Anti-Nuke Who's Who: Sadao Yamato
News Watch
-- The Basic Law on Energy Policy Passes the Diet
-- Reckless remarks on the three non-nuclear principles by chief Cabinet Secretary
-- Tsuruga 1 to Be Decommissioned
-- JFBA Requests the Cancellation of Kaminoseki NPP Plan
-- First Round of Safety Inspection for Remodeling Monju Completed

• Rokkasho Uranium Enrichment Plant Trial
• Decommissioning Cost of Fugen
• Recycling of Nuke Waste!?
• Planned Rokkasho MOX Plant plagued with problems
• 2002 Electricity Supply: Contradiction of Electric Companies
• Anti-Nuke Who's Who: Shizuko Senou - a Japanese housewife Joan of Arc
• News Watch

• Hamaoka Nuclear Power Plant I - pipe rupture and water leak
• Water leak from spent fuel pool in Rokkasho Reprocessing Facility
• KEPCO gives up its plan to use French MOX
• Data: Current situation in Japanese nuclear industry
• Anti-Nuke Who's Who: Minoru Ito - fighting against Hamaoka nuclear power plants
• News Watch

• Decommissioning of Tokai Plant to Begin
• Nuclear Plants Unfit to Withstand Impact of Aircraft Crashes
• Conference in Taiwan to Stop International Waste Shipments
• Map: Nuclear Plants in Japan and in East Asia
• Anti-Nuke Who's Who: Yuko Yatabe - an activist with mother's eyes
• News Watch

2001

• JCO Criticality Accident: Superficial Changes and Forgotten Damages
• Japanese Optical Glass Giant Involved in U.S. Nuclear Weapons Development
• Nuclear Subsidies in Japan in Light of Kariwa Village's Rapika Incident
• ESCO and Energy Conservation in Japan
• Data: Japan's Separated Plutonium Inventory
• Data: Workers Exposure at Nuclear Plants
• Anti-Nuke Who's Who: Kenji Higuchi - the most intriguing photographer you'll ever meet
• News Watch

•  Kariwa Referendum: A New Blow to the Nuclear Program
• Japan's Climate Change Policy and Nuclear Power
• Government's Energy Policy to Intensify Nuclear Promotion
• Fukushima Energy Review Committee: A Challenge to the Top-down Energy Policy
• Anti-Nuke Who's Who: Daisuke Yoshida - Kariwa's young activist with a strong will
• News Watch

• Referendum at Kariwa Village: A Strong “7??No”7?? to MOX Program
• JCO Criticality Accident Court Case Begins -- Matters examined; matters left untouched
• DATA: Significant Incidents at Nuclear Facilities (2000)
• DATA: Japan's Radioactive Waste and Spent Fuel Inventory
• Public Opinion Increasingly Against the Kaminoseki Nuclear Plant
• Anti-Nuke Who's Who / The Association for the Preservation of Nagashima's Nature - a group with a mission to protect the "Ultimate Paradise"
• NEWS WATCH

• MOX Loading Postponed at Fukushima and Niigata Prefecture
• Embrittlement Forecast of Light Water Reactors' Pressure Vessel Steels
• Court Cases Involving Rokkasho Nuclear Fuel Cycle Facilities
• Open Debate ob JCO Accident Reveals NSC's Imprudence
• Anti-Nuke Who's Who: Koji Asaishi - imbued with the spirit and love of the rebel: a true anti-nuclear activist
• News Watch

• First Ever Simultaneous Shipments of HLW and MOX
• Latest Developments in Aomori Prefecture
• In Memory of Jinzaburo Takagi
• Nuclear Fusion and the Current ITER Situation in Japan
• DATA: Central Ministries Reform
• Anti-Nuke Who's Who: Sakae Sugiyama - an activist with a green future in mind
• News Watch

Nuke Info Tokyo No. 81 (Jan./Feb. 2001) (296KB)

• Towards a Peaceful and Sustainable Future
• Lawsuit Against the Use if MOX Fuel at Fukushima 1-3
• Protest Against Restart of the Tokai Reprocessing Plant
• Exercising Self-Restraint For Our Children's Future: The Use of Ecotubes
• Public Debate on Geological Disposal of Radioactive Waste
• The Rokkasho Site: Recent Developments
• Anti-Nuke Who's Who: Yuichi Kaido
• News Watch
  --Tomari 3 Construction to be Launched
  --Injuries Due to Radiation Exposure Recognized as an Industrial Hazard
  --Former JCO Director and Others Indicted
  --Earthquake in Tottori
  --Hokkaido Governor Accepts Horonobe URL
  --JFBA Proposes that Nuclear Power Be Abolished
  --Monju and the Long-Term Program

2000

Nuke Info Tokyo No. 80 (Nov./Dec. 2000) (452KB)

• Few Safety Improvements Seen Since JCO Accident
• The Impact of a Possible MOX Fuel Accident at Fukushima I -3
• A tribute to Dr. Jinzaburo Takagi: Anti-Nuclear Scientist and Activist
• A Farewell to Our Outstanding Leader Dr.Jinzaburo Takagi
• My Colleague, Teacher, and Friend - Dr.Jinzaburo Takagi (Mycle Schneider)
• Renewable Energy in Japan No.3: Biomass and Energy Conservation
• DATA: Japanese Separated Pu Inventory (as of the end of 1999)
• Who's Who: Michiaki Furukawa - a man of knowledge and action
• News Watch
  --Promoters' Meeting Held for Establishment of Executing Company for HLW
  --Proposal Submitted for New Long-Term Nuclear Plan
  --76% Opposed to the Plan for the Horonobe Underground Research Laboratory
  --Hokkaido Governor Says 'Yes' to the Construction of Tomari 3
  --Nothing Could Be Done for Exposed Victims
  --Damages to SG Pipes Due to Stray Metal Chips
  --Kashiwazaki City Council Calls for Safety Confirmation on MOX Fuel
  --Additional Construction of Sendai 3 Proposed

• JAPAN'S PLUTONIUM POLICY AND MOX PROGRAM FULL OF CONTRADICTIONS
• "No Nukes Asia Forum" 2000 Held in Japan
• Renewable Energy in Japan: No.2: Wind Energy & Small Hydro Power
• Data:Workers Exposure at Nuclear Plants(1980-1999)
• SPENA Workshop 2000: Beyond Nuclear Energy Toward Sustainable Energy Path
• Anti-Nuke Who's Who: Hideyo Kanematsu - a diligent activist fighting geological disposal
• News Watch

• Waste Disposal Law Created to Assist Nuclear Development
• Inquiry into the Responsibility of the Former PNC and STA
• Discoveries of Radioactive Scrap Metal Highlight dangers of "Clearance Level" Plans
• Renewable Energy in Japan: No.1 Solar Energy
• DATA: Significant Incidents at Nuclear Facilities(1999)
• Anti-Nuke Who's Who: Jinzo Isobe - "We are not fighting. We are seeking the truth."
• News Watch

NUKE INFO TOKYO No. 77 (May/June 2000) (108KB)

• Court Rules Against Closing Monju Fast Breeder Reactor
• Dubious MOX Quality Control Not Just BNFL
• Coolant Loss at Mihama 2
• Geological Disposal to Gain Legal Approval
• Criticality Accident Victims' Group
• DATA: Nuclear Power Development Program
• Anti-Nuke Who's Who: Yasue Ashihara: tireless leader of hometown campaigns
• News Watch

NUKE INFO TOKYO No. 76 (Mar./Apr. 2000) (560KB)

• MOX Data Fabrication: Lack of Regulatory Ability Exposed
• Plans For Nuclear Power Plant at Ashihama Dropped
• Problems Caused by the Decommissioning of Nuclear Power Plants
• JCO Criticality Accident: STA Lowers Evaluation Levels of Exposure Dose
• Updates on Nuclear Facilities at Rokkasho Village, Aomori
• Anti-Nuke Who's Who: Kazumasa Aizawa - a man to free Tokai of its nuclear burdens
• News Watch

NUKE INFO TOKYO No. 75 (Jan./Feb. 2000) (104KB)

• MOX Program Postponed - Nuclear Industry hit hard by dishonesty
• 1999 Workshop of Sustainable and Peaceful Energy Network Asia Held in Thailand
• JCO Criticality Accident - The Victims and the Final Report
• Conference on "Carriage of Ultra Hazardous Radioactive Cargo By Sea: Implications and Responses"
• Data on Spent Fuel and Radioactive Waste As of March 1999
• Anti-Nuke Who's Who: Sanshiro Kume - an instructor inside and outside school
• News Watch

1999

NUKE INFO TOKYO No. 74 (Nov./Dec. 1999) (120KB)

• JCO Criticality Accident: How Many Lessons Will It Take?
• The Effects of Released Neutrons and Radioactive Materials
• Release All Data on Exposure Doses As Soon As Possible
• The History of JCO Ltd.
• Anti-Nuke Groupes Take KEPCO to Court Over MOX Data Falsification
• Workers' Exposure at Nuclear Plants(1985-1998)
• Annual Collective Dose of N-Plant Workers(person-Sv)
• Developments ar Rokkasho Nuclear Fuel Cycle Facility
• Anti-Nuke Who's Who: Gan Nemoto - "Gan-san" has national currency
• Many Thanks to the Translators and Proof-Readers
• News Watch

NUKE INFO TOKYO No. 73 (Sep./Oct. 1999) (92KB)

• WORST ACCIDENT IN JAPANESE NUCLEAR HISTORY (TOKAI Criticality Accident)
• BNFL Fabricates MOX Fuel Inspection DATA
• MOX Fuel Arrives In Japan
• 80% of the Public Wary of Nuclear Power
• All MOX License Applied for Ohma Reactor
• Resumption of Spent Fuel Shipments to Rokkasho Reprocessing
• Tsuruga Accident Report No.2
• Anti-Nuke Who's Who: GEN [Green Energy "law" Network]
• News Watch

• Tsuruga 2 Reactor: A Large Amount of Coolant Water Leak
• Transport Ships on Thier Way to Japan
• Data: Significant Incidents at Nuclear Power Plants(1998)
• Nuclear Power Plants and Related Facilities in Japan
• The 1999 Workshop: Sustainable and Peaceful Energy Network -Asia in Thailand
• Anti-Nuke Who's Who: Shoji Kihara
• News Watch

• CNIC Makes anti-MOX Appeal at Hague
• Common Appeal against any Plutonium Extraction and Utilization
• Operation of Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant Delayed Once Again
• Review of Long-term Program on Nuclear Energy Begins
• Electric Utility Industry Law Amended
• Ainti-Nuke Who's Who - Ryoichi Hirano
• News Watch

• CNIC put an opinion add in the "FIJI TIMES"
• Recent MOX Situation in Japan
• The Fourth Shipment of HLW
• A Sustainable and Peaceful Energy Future in Asia
• Current Situation in Japanese Nuclear Industries
• TV Documentary on Dr. Takagi's Life as Nuclear Scientist
• Anti-Nuke Who's Who: Ikuo Kusaka
• News Watch

• CNIC and Stop MOX Campaign Representatives Visit Fiji
• International Coalition Condemns Secret Japanese Plan to Ship Plutonium; Organizations Call on Japan to Halt Plutonium Program
• Doctored Casks to be Used Continuously
• Plan to Build 20 New Reactors-Unlikely to Succeed
• Uncertain Future for Japan's Electric Power Deregulation-Talks Focus Exclusively on Cheaper Rates
• Takagi School for Alternative Scientists
• Spent Fuel Stored and Storage Capacity in Japanese Nuclear Power Plant
• News Watch

1998

• CNIC Workshop on Energy Held in S.Korea
• Asian Scientists and Environmentalists Call for Action to Protect Our Climate
• Spent-Fuel Cask Data Doctored
• New Series of Roundtable Talks Begins
• Anti-Nuke Who's Who: Masayuki Sato
• Data: Workers' Radiation Exposure at Nuclear Power Plants
• News Watch

• Aomori Allows Spent Fuel Shipment to Rokkasho
• CNIC now Headed by Three Representatives
• On My Resignation as the Exective Director of CNIC -Jinzabro Takagi
• Jabiluka Mining -The controversial project backed by Japanese power utilities
• Appeal from Scientists in Japan to the Scientists and Citizens of the World(complete version)
• Anti-Nuke Who's Who - Takatoshi Yamazaki
• Data - Significant Incidents at Nuclear Plants(July-December, 1997)
• Statement Calling for the Cancellation of the MOX Transport Plan and Appeal for Signature Campaign
• News Watch

• Spent Fuel Transport Casks from Japan Also Contaminated - Contaminations from Early '90s Finally Revealed
• No Hope for Rally by Nuclear Power - Government Formulates New "Outlook"
• Update on MOX - Gov't and Utilities Set to Force Down Plan Without Public Consent
• An Appeal from Scientists in Japan to the Scientists and Citizens of the World
• Takagi School for Alternative Scientists Initiated
• Data : Significant Incidents at Nuclear Plant
• Anti-Nuke Who's Who - Kazumasa Yasumoto
• Announcement : Workshop on Sustainable and Peaceful Energy Future in Asia '98
• News Watch

• India and Pakistan's Tests Show Need for Total Abolition of Nuc.Arms
• Warning!-Plutonium Fuel Shipment May Come in February Next Year
• Waste of Non-Japanese Origin to be Contained in Coming VHLW Shipment
• Plans for Central Intermediate Storage Facilities for Spent Nuclear Fuel
• MOX Utilization Plan - Developments in Fukui and Fukushima
• Electric Utility Reorgnization - Move to Consider Only Short - Term Economic Benefit
• Report on Health Conditions of Decontamination Workers at Chernobyl
• News Watch

• Tokai 1 Shutdow for Decommisioning - Legacy of Difficulties Waiting Ahead
• VHLW Arrives Rokkasho - Unloading Stalled for Three Days Due to Local Resistance
• Japan's HLW Disposal Plan
• Japan's Plutonium Program for 1998
• India and Pakistan - Making Nuclear Weapons from Nuclear Energy
• Anti-Nuke Who's Who - Kaoru Sakurai - Renewable Energy Instead of Nuclear Energy
• News Watch

• Can Japan Change? - Appeal for People's Participation in Energy Policy Making
• Report on COP3
• Japan's High Level Waste to Pass Panama Canal
• Tokai Reprocessing Plant Accident: Final Report
• The Right Livelihood Award Ceremony
• Nuclear Developments in Asia- Part2: Thailand, Vietnam, and Malaysia
• Report from Moscow- Changing Paradigms in Radiobiology (by Natalia Mironova)
• Plutonium Glut Ever Increasing: STA Releases 1996 Pu Inventory Figures
• DATA: Workers' Radiation Exposure at Nuclear Plants
• News Watch

1997

• IMA(International MOX Assessment) Final Report - Conclusion
• The 1997 Right Livelihood Award to be Presented to Jinzaburo Takagi
• Plan for Third High-Level Waste Shipment Announced
• FBR Development Lost in Cloud
• Wither the Kyoto Conference?
• News Watch

• NIT Enters Second Decade - A Step Toward Nuclear Free Future
• Nuke Info Tokyo : A Beacon In The Nuclear Darkness - by Paul Leventhal (Nuclear Control Institute)
• CNIC - Japanese Best Source of Nuclear Information - by Tom Clements (Greenpeace International)
• Nuclear Power Development in Asia : Indonesia - Japan Plays Major Role
• Yet Another PNC Flop - Massive Leak of Radioactive Substance Found at Tokai
• CGEMA's( The Committee for General Evaluation of the Monju Accident) Final Report on Monju Accident
• Agenda of the Citizens' International Conference for Sustainable and Peaceful Energy Future
• Significant Incidents at Nuclear Plants (July to December 1996 )
• News Watch

• Superphenix Shock - Japanese Plutonium Policy
• Asian Nuclear Situation - China,Taiwan and Korean Peninsula
• DATA : Incidents at N-plants
• News Watch

• STA Begins Legal Action Against PNC
• Anti-Nuke Groups Around Japan:Union of Ibaraki Anti-Nuke Power Movements
• The Situation at Rokkasyo-Part 2
• Replacement Shrouds for FUKUSHIMA 1
• News Watch

• Fire and Explosion at PNC's Facility
• The Situation at Rokkasho Part 1
• Japan's MOX Utilization Policy
• Cracks in Fuel of Kashiwazaki 6
• Taiwan is Going to Export Rad Waste
• Anti-Nuke Who's Who: Mr. Ryoichi Sato: the Society Opposed to the Ohma NPP
• News Watch

• Japan's Plutonium Policy
• Japan's MOX Program / Pacific Against VHLW / Second VHLW Shipment
• DATA: Asian Nuclear Facilities 1996
• Problems of Aging Reactors
• Opposition to U.S. MOX Program
• News Watch

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