Nuke Info Tokyo

Nuke Info Tokyo 147 (March/April 2012) (1.2MB)

• Fukushima: Current status of nuclear reactors and corium
• What are the main issues in future discussions on energy policy?
• My Opinion on Radioactive Disaster Waste
• The Problem of the Meteorological Research Institute’s Environmental Radiation Research
• Anti-Nuke Who's Who: Masaharu Kawata
• News Watch
  --Proposal within the Democratic Party of Japan to stop the nuclear fuel cycle
  --Draft bill of law to overhaul nuclear energy organizations presented to parliament
  --International Conference on Nuclear Safety in December
  --Budget proposal for nuclear energy doubling to handle accident
  --Request for Referendum on Nuclear Energy

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

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) (656KB)

• 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) (792KB)

• 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) (520KB)

• 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) (908KB)

• 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

NUKE INFO TOKYO No. 72 (July/Aug. 1999) (488KB)

• 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

NUKE INFO TOKYO No.71 (May/June 1999) (256KB)

• 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

NUKE INFO TOKYO No. 70 (Mar./Apr. 1999) (416KB)

• 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

NUKE INFO TOKYO No. 69 (Jan./Feb. 1999) (400KB)

• 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

NUKE INFO TOKYO No. 68 (Nov./Dec. 1998) (328KB)

• 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

NUKE INFO TOKYO No. 67 (Sept./Oct. 1998) (340KB)

• 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

NUKE INFO TOKYO No. 66 (July/Aug. 1998) (236KB)

• 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

NUKE INFO TOKYO No. 65 (May/June 1998) (588KB)

• 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

NUKE INFO TOKYO No. 64 (March/April 1998) (328KB)

• 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

NUKE INFO TOKYO No. 63 (Jan./Feb. 1998) (286KB)

• 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

NUKE INFO TOKYO No. 62 (Nov./Dec. 1997) (180KB)

• 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

NUKE INFO TOKYO No. 61 (Sep./Oct. 1997) (248KB)

• 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

NUKE INFO TOKYO No. 59 (May-June1997) (416KB)

• 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

NUKE INFO TOKYO No. 58 (March/April 1997) (344KB)

• 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

NUKE INFO TOKYO 57 (Jan./Feb.1997)

• Japan's Plutonium Policy
• Mm's Committee Gives Go-Ahead to MOX Program?
• Report on the7th Nuclear Free and Independent Pacific Conference
• Second Transportation of VHLW Goes Forward
• Aging Reactors Pose Serious Safety Problems
• News Watch
  -- "No!" to State Involvement in Reactor Exports
  -- APO Founded
  -- Iodine Tablets for Residents
  -- Moves to 'Invite' ITER
  -- Freedom of Information Progresses

1996

NUKE INFO TOKYO 56 (Nov./Dec.1996)

• CNIC Holds -IMA Conference in Kyoto
• A year on from the Monju Accident-What has changed?
• Japan Exports N-plants to Taiwan
• News Watch
  -- The Tokyo Meeting of the Asia Nuclear Safety Congress Held
  -- ABWR Begins Commercial Operation
  -- ''One Tsubo'' Landowner Movement to Block the Ohma N-Plant
  -- JT-60 Meet Conditions for Critical Plasma State
  -- MITI Plans Off-Site Interim Spent Fuel Storage
  -- Japan May Cooperate with Russian Dismantled Pu

NUKE INFO TOKYO 55 (Sep./Oct.1996)

• Maki Townspeople Chose a Nuclear Free Future
• An Accident Waiting to Happen
• Japanese Citizens' Appeal on the CTBT Signing
• The IAEA Revises Guidelines for Transport of Radioactive Material
• DATA: Workers Exposure at Nuclear Plants (1985-95)
• Anti-Nuke Who's Who - The Citizens of the Nice Electric Utilities
• News Watch
  -- Troubles Continue in the World's First ABWR
  -- "Local Development" Highlight for Next Year's Budget Demand
  -- Tohoku Electric Apply Higashidori l Building Permit
  -- Spent Fuel Begins to Overflow
  -- Residents Opposed to Adding Hamaoka5

NUKE INFO TOKYO 54 (Jul./Aug.1996)

• Tokai GCR to Be Decommissioned But What About the Waste?
  
• Monju Sodium Leak. Increasing Doubts over STA's Fact-Finding Efforts
  
• An Anti Nuke Mayor at Suzu City is Not to Be
  
• Siberian Nuke Center Lacks Safety & Safeguards
  
• Anti-Nuke Who's Who - Mikio Shimaoka of Kubokawa Town
  
• DATA : Significant Incidents at Nuclear Plants (July to December 1995)
  
• News Watch
  -- Meeting Held to Introduced ASIATOM Idea
  -- Municipal Governments Stockpile Iodine, Independently
  -- Anti-nuclear Shareholders Mad Proposal at Power Co.s' AGMs
  -- Ten Power Companies to Share Rokkasho Costs. 100 Billion Yen

NUKE INFO TOKYO 53 (May /June 1996)

• TEPC0 Plans to Use Dessel for its MOX Fabrication
• AEC Starts N-Energy Roundtable Amid Distrust and Uncertainty
  
• The Importation and Storage of VHLW at Rokkasho: Safety Concerns
  
• Monju Accident Update, Sheath at Last Found
  
• Anti-Nuke Who's Who - The People in Front of the French Embassy
  
• Significant Incidents at Nuclear Plants (January to June 1995)
  
• News Watch
  -- Graphite to Be Exported to China
  -- Nuclear Industry Trying to "Denuclearize"
  -- An Asian EURATOM
  -- Public Hearing on Higashidoril
  -- Onagawa3 is Granted Construction Permit
  -- The Supreme Court rejected Suzu mayoral election

NUKE INFO TOKYO 52 (Mar. /Apr. 1996)

• The 10th Anniversary of the Chernobyl Accident - Citizens' Aid Movements in Japan
  
• Japanese MOX Fabrication Contracts Made Without a Users License
  
• Proposal Concerning Future Nuclear Power Policy Implementation
  
• Revised Costs Prompt Significant Changes in Rokkasho Design
  
• Situation of Nuclear Power in South Korea
  
• News Watch
  -- The International Conference on Asian Nuclear Cooperation
  -- Nation's First N-Plant Referendum to be Held
  -- Internal Pump Tripped at Kashiwazaki 6
  -- Recycle Nuclear Waste to be Used in Parks

NUKE INFO TOKYO 51 (Jan. /Feb. 1996)

• Plutonium Policy Stalled
  
• News Watch
  -- Anti-Nuclear Mayor Elected
  -- PNC & Related Local Gov.s Agree on Gen Research Lab
  -- The Kushima Nuclear Power Plan Brought to an End
  -- New Referendum Ordinance Adopted
  -- The Mayoral Election at Suzu City Ruled Invalid
  -- Move to Invite ITER, Strong

1995

NUKE INFO TOKYO 50 (Nov. /Dec. 1995)

• Plutonium Surplus and Rokkasho Costs Soar
  
• Pu Hold-Up at PFPF Still Controversial
  
• A Nuclear Boom in Asian Region
  
• CNIC Urge STA to Investigate the VHLW Leakage
  
• Dismantle Plutonium for Japanese FBR Contributes to World Peace??
  
• Anti-Nuke Who's Who - Shimahashis
  
• News Watch
  -- S. Korea Axes Plan to Build N-Waste Facilities on an Island
  -- Plan of Construction of N-Plants in Kushima Frozen
  -- Haphazard Nuclear Accidents Repeatedly Occur
  -- Aomori Prefecture Invites ITER
  -- A Referendum to Question The N-Plant Postponed
  -- Yonggwang 4 Stopped

NUKE INFO TOKYO 49 (Sep. /Oct. 1995)

• CNIC Celebrates 20th Anniversary
  
• Against French and Chinese Nuclear Testing
  - Outrage, As France And China Snub World Opinion
  - Dialogue With French Diplomat
  - Anti-Nuclear Pan-Asian Demonstrations
  
• Cesium l37 Detected in Glass Logs
  
• Annual Collective Dose of N-plant Workers
  
• Anti-Nuke Who's Who - Abe Family in Onagawa Town
  
• News Watch
  -- Spent Fuel Left Tomari Amid Protest
  -- KEPC0 Replaces Vessel Heads of 3 PWRs
  -- PNC Plans Waste Laboratory at Tohnoh

NUKE INFO TOKYO 48 (July /August 1995)

• 50 Years 0n From Hiroshima and Nagasaki - What Have We Learned from History?
  
• Cancellation of Ohma ATR Shakes Japan's Plutonium Program
  
• HLW Transport Series -- No.9 - HLW Canisters' Safety Questioned
  
• Significant Incidents at Nuclear Plants (July to December 1994)
  
• Anti-Nuke Groups Active Around Japan - Mothers' Group Protects Children from Nuclear Fuel Cycle Facilities
  
• News Watch
  -- It's Official Hanau is dead!
  -- Japan's Nuclear Export
  -- A Referendum to Question the N-plant
  -- The Japan's First and Last Nuclear-powered Vessel

NUKE INFO TOKYO 47 (May /June 1995)

• HLW Transport Series -- No.9 - Pacific Pintail Arrived Amid Protest
  
• NGO Played Momentous Roles at NPT Review Conference
  
• A Total Nuclear Ban rather than Nuclear ''Non-Proliferation''
  
• An Earthquake Would Lead To Reactor Power Excursion
  
• Significant Incidents at Nuclear Plants (January to June 1994)
  
• Save Orchid Island! - An Appeal from Taiwan
  
• News Watch
  -- China's N-Plant Shutdown
  -- Monju Restarted, but Stopped Again
  -- Referenda to Stop N-Plant Construction
  -- Anti-Nuke Candidates Won Around Japan

NUKE INFO TOKYO 46 (March /April 1995)

• HLW Transport -- Series 8
  
• Petitions Bring Gov't Nuclear Policy to a Deadlock
  
• The Hanshin Quake - Nuclear Nightmare -
  
• Anti-Nuke Who's Who - Suzuko Numata
  
• News Watch
  -- Kyoto Round Table Talks Held on Plutonium Policy
  -- International Conference for Asian Cooperation
  -- Anti-nuke Candidate Loses Election for Aomori Governorship
  -- First Glassification in Japan-0perations Halted after Only Third Log

NUKE INFO TOKYO 45 (Jan. /Feb. 1995)

• HLW Transport Series -- 7 - Oshita Runs for Aomori Governorship
  
• Hormesis Symposium Held
  
• Plutonium Surplus Increases Amid Lack of Transparency
  
• Aging Nuclear Power Plants
  
• News Watch
  -- Kobe Quake Proves Safety Is Not Assured
  -- 833,000 Signatures Against Monju Submitted
  -- Construction of RETF Begins
  -- Ikata3 Begins Operation
  -- Nuclear Waste Site in South Korea

1994

NUKE INFO TOKYO 44 (Nov. /Dec. 1994)

• Belarus-Japan Symposium on Chernobyl - Many New Findings Revealed and Discussed
  
• HLW Transport Series - 6 - Expert Report Points Out Serious Flaws in Transport and Storage of Vitrified HLW
  
• Final Disposal Issue Highlighted in Aomori
  
• News Watch
  -- A-Bomb Redress Bill Drafted
  -- Fukui Governor Fails to Say OK 16th Reactor
  -- MonJu Testing Shows
  -- Fuel Deterioration

NUKE INFO TOKYO 43 (Sep. /Oct. 1994)

• Workers' Compensation Approved
  
• HLW Transport Series 5
  
• Final Disposal Issue Highlighted in AOMORI
  
• Gensuikin Toward 50th Anniversary of Hiroshima & Nagasaki Bombings
  
• Social Democratic Party of Japan's New Nuclear Power Policy
  
• Significant Incidents at Nuclear Plants (July to December 1993)
  
• News Watch
  -- 48th Reactor in Operation
  -- Reprocessed Uranium at Ningyo Toge
  -- More N-plants for Fukushima?
  -- Low-priced Reactors to be Developed for Export
  -- Shika N-plant Declared Safe(?)

NUKE INFO TOKYO 42 (July /Aug. 1994)

• Aomori International Symposium on Reprocessing Held
  
• HLW Transport Series 4
  
• 'Use of Nuclear Weapons' not illegal?!
  
• Significant Incidents at Nuclear Plants (January to June 1993)
  
• Anti-Nuke Who's Who - Yoko Tomiyama
  
• News Watch
  -- Compensation Approved for Nuclear Worker
  -- Japanese Reactors are Aging
  -- Troubles Found Outside of Regular Inspections
  -- First Steam Generator Exchanges Completed
  -- Nuclear Cooperation in Asia Increasing
  -- Long-Term Program Ignoring Citizens' Demand

NUKE INFO TOKYO 41 (June /July 1994)

• Plutonium Program Set Back 10 Years
  
• Tension Rises in Korean Peninsula
  
• HLW Transport Series 3
  
• Unanimous Decision to Reject Any Nuclear Power Plant
  
• News Watch
  -- Fishing Coops Accept Compensation for ATR-Ohma
  -- Unprecedented Lawsuit Filed Against Power Company
  -- 400,000 Sign Petition to Designate Worker's Death Labor Accident
  -- Underground Nuclear Plant in Siberia

NUKE INFO TOKYO 40 (Mar. /Apr. 1994)

• Onagawa Lawsuit
  
• First Public Hearing Held
  
• Proposal for Moratorium on Plutonium Utilization Program
  
• South Korean Data on Workers' Exposure and Waste
  
• HLW Transport Series 2
  
• Anti-Nuke Groups Active Around Japan - Daichi
  
• News Watch
  -- Nothing Changes Despite New Government
  -- Waste Regulations Revised
  -- Bribery Revealed in Construction of Ashihama N-Plant
  -- Monju Ready to Start
  -- China Goes Nuclear

NUKE INFO TOKYO 39 (Jan. /Feb. 1994)

• TIME FOR A CHANGE
  
• Court Rejects Injunction But Notes Danger
  
• "Don't Contaminate PETER RABBIT'S Homeland! Stop Sending Spent Nuclear Fuel!"
  
• 2 More N-Plants Approved in Tsuruga Amidst Growing.0pposition
  
• Anti-Nuke Who's Who - Chikayuki Takeshita Tsuyo Takeshita
  
• News Watch
  -- Japanese Agenda21 Promotes Nuclear Power
  -- Russia Wants To Dump More ?
  -- Are Judgments Overturned

1993

NUKE INFO TOKYO 38 (Nov. /Dec. 1993)

• Stop MONJU Nationwide Rally
  
• N-Weapons Used As Bargaining Chips in Asia
  
• Japan's Plutonium Surplus Increasing
  
• "From PA (Public Acceptance) to PD (Public Decision)"
  
• Anti-Nuke Groups Active Around Japan - No Nukes Asia Forum Japan
  
• News Watch
  -- Japan Votes for Total Ban on Sea Dumping of R-Waste
  -- Power Companies Donating to LDP
  -- Plutonium Fuel Loading Starts
  -- Strong Opposition to Feasibility Study for Kushima
  -- Japanese MPs Urged to Renegotiate THORP Contract

NUKE INFO TOKYO 37 (Sept. /Oct. 1993)

• Plutonium Debate Held
  
• More Transparency in Nuclear Policy!
  
• Aging of Tokai I Arouses Concern
  
• Japanese Citizens Speak Out on THORP
  
• Japan EXIM Bank to Fund Nuclear Project in Indonesia
  
• Workers' Exposure and Waste Data
  
• Anti-Nuke Who's Who - Tetsuen Nakajima
  
• News Watch
  -- Tomari N-Plant Continued Operation Despite Big Earthquake
  -- Radiation-Contaminated Scrap Concrete to be Buried
  -- South Pacific Nations Remain Concerned about Japanese Pu Shipments

NUKE INFO TOKYO 36 (July /Aug. 1993)

• No Nukes Asia Forum
  
• G7 Fails to Declare Strong Non-Proliferation Stand
  
• Muto Avers Japan Must have "Will"
  
• Monju Delayed Again Because of Fuel Fabrication Troubles
  
• THORP's Future in the Hands of the Japanese?
  
• Radioactive Contaminated Buildings in Taiwan
  
• News Watch
  -- Kushima to Accept N-Plant?
  -- National Mayors' Council Alert on Transport of Nuclear Fuel
  -- Tohoku Electric Submits Classified Documents to Court
  -- ABWR Proposed for Shika2
  -- Safety of Aged Reactors to be Reviewed

NUKE INFO TOKYO 35 (May /June 1993)

• Rad-Waste Dumped in Sea of Japan
  
• MITI's Pro-Plutonium Ad
  
• Help Stop FNPP in Taiwan!
  
• Nuclear Workers At Risk of Exposure
  
• Significant Incidents at Nuclear Plants - (Aug. - Dec.1992)
  
• Anti-Nuke Groups Active Around Japan - Group of Plaintiffs to Stop Takahama 2
  
• News Watch
  -- Spent Fuel Storage Pool to be Constructed
  -- 5 New Nuclear Plants Added
  -- Overstaffed Nuclear Divisions
  -- Mayors in Chiba Alert on N-Fuel Transports
  -- Unjustifiable Election in Suzu

NUKE INFO TOKYO 34 (Mar. /Apr. 1993)

• Aomori Rejects N-Fuel Cycle!
  
• North Korea Opts Out of NPT
  
• Referendum to Decide on Nuclear Plan
  
• Kansai Electric to Replace Old Generation Steam Generators
  
• Significant Incidents at Nuclear Plants - (Jan. to Jul.1992)
  
• Anti-Nuke Who's Who - Asako Hama
  
• News Watch
  -- Worker Killed, Two Burned by Steam at Fukushima
  -- Belgium Likely to Supply Mox Fuel to Japan
  -- Extension of Tsuruga Plant Proposed
  -- France to Return HLW to Japan
  -- Pro-Nuclear Lobby Emerges in SDP

NUKE INFO TOKYO 33 (Jan. /Feb. 1993)

• Akatsuki-Maru Arrives Amidst Protest & Concern
  
• IMO Meeting Voices Strong Concern Over Japan's Plutonium Shipment But No Resolution Adopted
  
• Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant Construction About to Start Amid Uncertainty
  
• Significant Incidents at Nuclear Plants (Jan - Dec.0991)
  
• Anti-Nuke Groups Active Around Japan - Nuclear Fuel Transport Monitoring Group
  
• News watch
  -- LLW Disposal Facility Starts Operation
  -- Radioactivity Inspection of Imported Foods to be Relaxed
  -- Workers Exposed to Cobalt 60 Radiation
  -- Nuclear Budget Ups PA Funding
  -- Plan for a FBR Spent Fuel Reprocessing Plant Gets Underway

1992

NUKE INFO TOKYO 32 (Nov. /Dec. 1992)

• Asia-Pacific Forum on Sea Shipments of Japanese Plutonium
  
• Akatsuki-maru Embarks on Dangerous Voyage to Japan
  
• News Watch
  -- Supreme Court Acknowledges Danger of FBRs
  -- Supreme Court Rejects Citizens' Lawsuit
  -- EXIM Bank Funding Not Yet
  -- ECCS Activates at Fukushima Plant
  -- Dead Fish Found Again near Ikata
  
• Special - Japanese Government Upset By Foreign Criticism

NUKE INFO TOKYO 31(Sep. /Oct. 1992)

• Akatsuki-maru Bound for France
  
• Don't Approve Plutonium Export -- An Open Letter to the French Government
  
• Actions to Stop Pu Transport
  
• News Watch
  -- Japan Bids to Supply Research Reactors to Thailand
  -- Tube Damage Found Mihama l Steam Generator
  -- Way Opened for Long - Term Storage of Spent Nuclear Fuel?
  -- Advances in Plan for Higashidori N-Plant

NUKE INFO TOKYO 30(July /Aug. 1992)

• French Decision Shakes Japanese Plutonium Industry
  
• Stop Plutonium Transport
  
• International Symposium on Chernobyl Held at Minsk
  
• Series 4 : Japan's Nuclear Power Industry - Bleak Future for Nuclear Reactor Manufacturers
  
• First Batch of Plutonium Fuel Transported
  
• Anti-Nuke Who's Who - Kei Shimada
  
• News Watch
  -- Mitsubishi's ARE Ordered to Close
  -- Safety Reviews of Older Reactors to be Conducted
  -- Anti-Nuke Mayor Re-Elected
  -- Third Incident at the U-Enrichment Plant

NUKE INFO TOKYO 29 (May. /June 1992)

• The Dangers of Plutonium Shipments
  
• Series 3 : Japan's Nuclear Industry - Nuclear Plant Exports
  
• First Step to Commercializing Alternative Energy
  
• Anti-Nuke Groups Active Around Japan - Plutonium Free Future
  
• News Watch
  -- MHI to Build Belgian SG
  -- Report on Simplified Disposal of Waste from Scrapped Reactors
  -- Information on Transport of Nuclear Materials to Be Kept Secret
  -- Construction of HLW Storage Site Starts in Rokkasho
  -- MHI to Conduct FS for Large UK PWR
  -- Nuclear Industry Recruitment Measures
  -- PNC Participates in US Research on Decontamination Technology

NUKE INFO TOKYO 28 (Mar. /Apr. 1992)

• Growing Press Concern Over Japan's Plutonium
  
• Opposition to Plutonium Policy Mounts
  
• Plutonium News Watch
  
• Plans for More N-Power Plants
  
• Series 2 : Japan's Nuclear Industry - Nuclear Industry Groups
  
• Waste Problem in Korea
  
• Anti-Nuke Who's Who - Kazuyuki Iwasa
  
• News Watch
  -- FEPC to Buy Electricity from New Sources
  -- Rokkasho Uranium Enrichment Plant Suffers Troubles
  -- Move Seen to Invite ITER to Hokkaido
  -- Work Starts on Feasibility Study for N-Plant in Indonesia

NUKE INFO TOKYO 27 (Jan. /Feb. 1992)

• Outlook for 1992 A Year of Plutonium Issues
  
• Annual White Paper on Nuclear Energy Published
  
• Radon Contamination Caused by Ningyotoge U Mines by Yoshihira Doi
  
• Series : Japan's Nuclear Industry - Electric Utilities
  
• International Conference on Plutonium Gets Wide Press Coverage
  
• Anti-Nuke Groups Active Around Japan - Iwanai Citizens' Group to Study Nuclear Power Plant Issue
  
• News Watch
  -- China's First Nuclear Power Generated at Qinshan 1
  -- Ohi3 Starts Operation
  -- Uranium Enrichment Begins at Rokkashomura
  -- Nuclear-Powered Mutsu Ends Experimental Voyage
  -- Worker's Exposure Suit Rejected
  -- New Steam Generator for Mihama 2
  -- Japan-US Joint Research for Next-Generation Reactor
  -- Worker Exposed to Plutonium Exceeding Annual Dosage
  -- Resolution to Refuse Depleted Uranium

1991

NUKE INFO TOKYO 26 (Nov. /Dec. 1991)

• Plutonium Conference A Great Success
  
• Stop the Flow of N-Weapons Materials!
  
• The Situation in Europe
  
• Pu Contamination by Chernobyl Accident
  
• Speakers' Appeal from the International Conference on Plutonium
  
• Foreign Delegates Toured Japan
  
• News Watch
  -- PNC Asks for Uranium Conversion Experiment
  -- Fukushima Town Council Asks for New Nuclear Reactor
  -- Bombs Dropped Near Reprocessing Plant Construction Site
  -- Monju Criticality Delayed
  -- South Korean President Pledges to Go "Nuclear Free"

NUKE INFO TOKYO 25 (Sep. /Oct. 1991)

• AEC's Ambitious Plutonium Program : Unrealistic and Controversial
  
• Japan Offers "Support" to USSR and East Europe
  
• Nuke Cooperation Expected in Asia
  
• The First UF6 Shipment Brought into Rokkasho-mura amid Protest
  
• Citizens' Energy Forum Held
  
• Anti-Nuke Who's Who - Makoto Tsukamoto
  
• DATA: Workers' Exposure person in 1990
  
• News Watch
  -- Japan to do feasibility study for Indonesia
  -- "Other firms possible" Kansai Chairman
  -- Tomari 2 also had cracks
  -- FRAMATOME Receives Chinese Order
  -- Lawsuit to demand suspension of Takahama 2
  -- High-level Radon Gas Found in Residual Soil

NUKE INFO TOKYO 24 (July /Aug. 1991)

• Anti-Nukes Urge Cancellation of IAEA Tokyo Seminar
  
• Tomari 1 Resumes Operation After Mere Makeshift Repairs
  
• Artificial Rock Bed in Kashiwazaki Creates Concern
  
• Protesters Urge to Refuse Indonesian Feasibility Study Order
  
• International Conference on Plutonium
  
• Anti-Nuke Groups Active Around Japan - Nuclear Free TEPCO Shareholders Movement
  
• Significant Incidents at Nuclear Plants (July ~ Dec. 1990)
  
• News Watch
  -- Reprocessing Plant Construction is Delayed
  -- Surveys on High-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal
  -- Plutonium Transport Escort Ship Launched
  -- N-Power Cooperation with Developing Countries
  -- North Korean Detector Admits to Recycling Facility
  -- A Fishermen's Co-op Refuses to Set up Negotiation Committee

NUKE INFO TOKYO 23 (May. /June 1991)

• Japan on the Brink of a Pu Economy
  
• Plans for Pu Usage
  
• Recent Developments since the Mihama 2 Nuclear Accident
  
• Anti-Nuke Who's Who - Aileen Smith
  
• 5th Anniversary of Chernobyl
  
• Significant Incidents at Nuclear Plants (Jan. ~ Jun. 1990)
  
• News Watch
  -- Nuclear Inspection Plans
  -- Reprieve for N-Export to Indonesia
  -- Nationwide Campaign against Mitsubishi Kasei
  -- Japan Concludes N-Power Cooperation Pact with USSR
  -- Residents Informed of Planned Replacement of Steam Generators
  -- First Legislation Passed Refusing Introduction of Radioactive Waste
  -- Peel-Off Damage to Fuel Clads at Hamaoka

NUKE INFO TOKYO 22 (Mar. /Apr. 1991)

• A Major Accident that Nearly Ended in a Meltdown
  
• Local Governments Unprepared for Nuclear Accident
  
• Defeat in Aomori Elections
  
• News Watch
  -- Shutdown at Tokai Reprocessing Plant
  -- Plan for Pu Use Revealed
  -- Japan-Korea N-safety cooperation agreement implemented
  -- Successive Power Failures at Tokai Facilities
  -- Mutsu gets official Recognition

NUKE INFO TOKYO 21 (Jan. /Feb. 1991)

• Comprehensive Critique of Rokkasho Project Published
  
• Horonobe Situation Still Unsettled
  
• International Uranium Forum in Aomori
  
• Nuclear Build-up in North Korea?
  
• Anti-Nuke Who's Who - Fusaichi Hirono
  
• News Watch
  -- Poll Shows 90% Afraid of N-Power
  -- Kubokawa Council Cancels Feasibility Study
  -- Second Asian Confab to be Held in March
  -- PNC locates Uranium mine
  -- Nuclear Industry Shows Profit in Services
  -- Fukushima II-3 Restarts Despite Court Battle
  -- No HLW for Kuchiwa, Hiroshima!

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

1989

NUKE INFO TOKYO 14 (Nov. /Dec. 1989)

• Iodine Leaks at Tokai Reprocessing Plant
  
• HLW Disposal Plans Come to Light
  
• Anti-Nuclear Activities Mount in October and November
  
• One Million Signature Drive Starts in Korea
  
• KEPC0 Indicted for Negligence
  
• Meaningless Dispute over Plutonium Shipment
  
• Important Incidents at Nuclear Plants
  
• Anti-Nuke Groups Active Around Japan - Society for a Prefectural Ordinance - No Radioactive Garbage in Okayama!
  
• News Watch
  -- Dead Fish Found off Nuclear Power Plant
  -- Japan Reluctant to Cut Co2
  -- Japanese Nuclear Industry Heading for Third World Markets
  -- Annual Safety Report Issued
  -- Major Design Revision for LLW Storage Facility

NUKE INFO TOKYO 13 (Sep. /Oct. 1989)

• National Rally for A Nuclear Phase-Out Law Held in Osaka
  
• Future of Nuclear Energy Still Uncertain After Election
  
• High Radioactivity Detected in Animal Feed Dry Milk - Is Food in Africa and Asia All Right?
  
• Nuclear Power in Korea
  
• Citizens Participate in Gensuikin Convention
  
• Anti-Nuke Who's Who - Shuhei Shirasaki and Maki Landowners' Group
  
• Data: Workers' Exposure in 1988
  
• News Watch
  -- Nuclear Issue Revives in Hidaka
  -- Aomori Farmer's Cooperatives Oppose Nuclear Fuel Cycle
  -- Kamaishi Invites High- Level Waste Disposal Research Facility
  -- Residents Outside 20km Zone Denied Right to Sue
  -- Residents Fear Early Restart of Fukushima II-3
  -- Emergency Drill Held in Fukui

NUKE INFO TOKYO 12 (July/Aug. 1989)

• Citizens Occupy City Hall for a Month in Suzu City
  
• Protests against H-bomb Dropped off Okinawa
  
• Tokyo Electric Holds Shareholders Meeting amidst Mounting Accidents at Fukushima
  
• 1.2 Million Sign Petition to Phase Out Nuclear Power
  
• Debate between Citizens and Electric Co.
  
• Anti-Nuke Groups Active Around Japan - "Nausicaa" and "We Need No Nukes! Hiroshima Network"
  
• News Watch
  -- Tomari No.1 Reactor Goes on Line
  -- Japan Atomic Industrial Forum Survey on Overseas Cooperation
  -- LDP Suffers Dramatic Defeat in Upper House Election
  -- N-Accident Scale Introduced
  -- Utilities Cut Off Power S1upply to Maruki Museum
  -- Cracks in Bolts of Ikata Reactor as Expected

NUKE INFO TOKYO 11 (May/June/ 1989)

• Rally against N-Fuel Cycle Facility
  
• Application for Rokkasho Plant Will Touch off Heated Controversy
  
• April 23--Rallies Held throughout Japan
  
• TV Debate - A Big Success
  
• Spent Fuel Sent to US
  
• South Korea's Anti-Nuclear Power Movement Builds
  
• Nuclear Plant Availability Falls
  
• Anti-Nuke Who's Who - Hisako Kondo
  
• News Watch
  -- Dummy Bomb Dropped Near N-Fuel Cycle Facility Site
  -- Funds Set Aside for Decommissioning
  -- Hirosaki Branch LDP Opposes Reprocessing Plant
  -- Strong Support for Anti-Nuke Candidates in Suzu Election
  -- Tomari Trial Opens
  -- Sit-in at Shikoku Electric
  -- Lost H-Bomb Causes Anger

NUKE INFO TOKYO 10 (Mar./Apr.1989)

• Pump Rupture at Fukushima II Arouses Serious Safety Concern
  
• Nuclear Plant Workers Show Higher Risk of Chromosome Damage
  
• Citizens Set up Monitoring Centers for Contaminated Foods
  
• Former Mining Sites at Ningyotoge Pose Danger
  
• Anti-Nuke Groups Active Around Japan - Group Merde
  
• News Watch
  -- Rokkasho Permit Application Submitted
  -- Onagawa Permit Granted
  -- Shimane Unit 2 on Life
  -- Lawsuit to Scrap Mutsu
  -- Chubu Electric to Purchase Uranium from U.S. and Canada
  -- SDF to Guard Plutonium-Shipments?
  -- Japan, Taiwan Agree to Swap N-Power Info

NUKE INFO TOKYO 9 (Jan./Feb.1989)

• Petition for a Denuclearization Law Takes off
  
• Nuclear Industry is About to Peak Out
  
• Food Irradiation in Japan
  
• Uranium Imports from Namibia
  
• Citizens Polled on Nuclear Power Issue
  
• Anti-Nuke Who's Who - Yuto Mionoya
  
• News Watch
  -- Farmers Oppose N-fuel Cycle Facility
  -- Hokkaido Assembly Rejects Plebiscite Resolution
  -- Construction of Noto Plant Begins
  -- Nuclear Accident Indemnity To Be Tripled
  -- Anti-Nuclear Protests in Korea
  -- Availability of Nuclear Plants Falls
  -- Three Successive Shutdowns at Fukushima II-3
  -- Doctors Pass Resolution Against N-Fuel Cycle Facility

1988

NUKE INFO TOKYO 8 (Nov./Dec.1988)

• Action on Anti-Nuclear Power Day
  
• Scrap Nuclear Fuel Cycle October Action by Hiroko Chiba
  
• Difficulties Mount After25 Years of Nuclear Power Generation
  
• Opposition Mounts in Hokkaido
  
• Plutonium Shipping
  
• Anti-Nuke Groups Active Around Japan - Women's Group to Stop Nuclear Power at Any Cost
  
• News Watch
  -- Construction of Commercial Uranium Enrichment Plant Started
  -- Utility Companies Declare Embargo on South African Uranium
  -- Kansai Electric Co Increases Uranium Imports from Australia
  -- Heavy Water Leakage at Nuclear Power Plant in South Korea
  -- Ministry of Health & Welfare Reveals Data on Contamination of Imported Foods

NUKE INFO TOKYO 7 (Sept./Oct.1988)

• Vote No! Stop Tomari!
  
• Strong Opposition to Unloading of Fuel Rod at Tomari
  
• Mass Suit against Nuclear Fuel Cycle Facilities
  
• Contaminated Food Imports Continue
  
• Anti-Nuke Who's Who - Miwako Ogiso
  
• The Recent Anti-Nuke "Boom"
  
• Data : Workers' Exposure & Radwaste in1987
  
• News Watch
  -- High Radioactivity Detected in Uranium Soil Waste
  -- New FBR Development Plan
  -- Radioactivity Leak at Takahama2
  -- Nuclear Accident Compensation Law to Be Reviewed
  -- Government Approves Construction of Two More Reactors
  -- Group Asks Court to Block Tomari Nuclear Plant

NUKE INFO TOKYO 6 (July/Aug.1988)

• A Proposal for a Movement to Establish a "Denuclearization Law"
  
• Plutonium Air-Lift Opposed
  
• Nuclear Free Asia-Pacific Conference Held in Hong Kong
  
• International Uranium Congress
  
• Citizens Say "No" to Nuclear Power at3-day Rally in Noto
  
• Anti-Nuke Groups Active Around Japan - Kashiwazaki Anti-Nuke Alliance
  
• News Watch
  -- Expansions and Thinning of Control Rod Cladding Observed
  -- Hikigawa Elects Anti-Nuke Mayor
  -- Primary Coolant Leaks at Genkai
  -- Bolt Damage Found in PWRs
  -- Helicopter Crash Near Nuke Plant

NUKE INFO TOKYO 5 (May/June1988)

• Thousands Gather in Tokyo to Rally Against Nuclear Power Generation
  
• Pal Doj's Speech Chernobyl Has Changed Our Way of Life
  
• Peter Welsh's Speech Austria's No To Nuclear Power
  
• Anti-Nuke Who's Who - Michi Kobayashi and Kumiko Miyamoto
  
• High Concentration of I-129 Found Near Tokai Reprocessing Plant
  
• Important Incidents and Accidents at Nuclear Power Plants in1987
  
• News Watch
  -- Fishermen's Co-op Stops Nuclear Reactor Plan
  -- Load Factor in1987 Unusually High
  -- PNC Submits Report on Proposed HLW Storage Site
  -- Nuclear Law Amended
  -- U Enrichment Plant Starts Operation
  -- JNFI Applies for LLW -Disposal License

NUKE INFO TOKYO 4 (Mar./Apr.1988)

• More Than 3,000 People Protest Against Test at Ikata
  
• Radiation Council OKS Dumping of "Low-Level" Radwaste
  
• ICRP Publication26 to Be Adopted in Japan
  
• Anti-Nuke Who's Who - Takahashi Masukura
  
• Anti-Nuke Groups Active Around Japan - Plaintiffs Against Ikata Nuclear Power Plant
  
• News Watch
  -- Two Recirculation Pumps Fail Simultaneously at Hamaoka Unit 1
  -- Fire at Fukushima 1 Plant
  -- Successive Shutdowns at Tsuruga Plant
  -- Control Rod Defects Found at Ikata
  -- 2000 in Protest at Nuke Plant Hearing
  -- Mutsu Conducts Tests at Its New Port
  -- Kubokawa Mayor Abandons Plan
  
• Chernobyl Anniversary Rally in Tokyo Hopes to Receive Messages From The World

NUKE INFO TOKYO 3 (Jan./Feb.1988)

• Recent Cost-cutting Trends Pose Dangers for Nuclear Power Plants
  
• Steam Generators with Corroded Tubes Continue Operation
  
• Third National Anti-Nuke Rally in Tokyo Expects to Draw Thousands
  
• NFIP(Nuclear Free and Independent Pacific)Passes a Resolution Opposing the Japanese Nuclear Waste Dumping Plan
  
• Pacific Still Regarded as Nuclear Dustbin
  
• Anti-Nuke Who's Who - Yuriko Shimizu
  
• Anti-Nuke Groups Active Around Japan - Apple Blossom League
  
• News Watch
  -- Former Nuclear Plant Worker Still Seeking Compensation
  -- Indonesia Postpones Nuclear Plant Project
  -- World Symposium on Nuclear Safety Countered by Anti-Nuke Demonstrations
  -- Protestors Rally against Plans to Air-Transport Plutonium

1987

NUKE INFO TOKYO 2 (Dec.1987)

• Tokyo Rally Draws a Crowd
  
• Reassessment of Atomic Bomb Casualties Strongly Suggests a Higher Radiation Risk
  
• Imported Foods Continue to be Contaminated
  
• Anti-Nuke Who's Who - Fusae Kawazoe
  
• Anti-Nuke Groups Active Around Japan
  - The Nuclear Free Pacific Center Tokyo
  - Anti-Nuke Delivery Group
  
• News Watch
  --Bar Assoc Criticized Shimokita Nuclear Facilities
  --Tsuruga-1 Scrammed in a Chernobyl-like Event
  --Nuclear Reactors Create Dangerous Surplus Power Situation
  --Citizen Group Voices Opposition to Plutonium Air Transport

NUKE INFO TOKYO 1 (Oct.1987)

• Forward
  
• Japanese Nuclear Industry/Anti-Nuke Movement Face Turning Points
  
• The Number of Workers Exposed to Radiation Increases
  
• Anti-Nuke Who's Who - Yukio Kawakami
  
• Japanese Gov't Continues to Promote Waste Dumping Plan in The Pacific
  
• Mitsubisi Makes Plans to Export Nuclear Technology to Indonesia
  
• Mitsubishi's Radwaste Causes Serious Concern　in Malaysia
  
• News Watch
  -- Illegal Engineering at Takahama 1 Accused by Residents
  -- JAEC Announced New Long Term Plan
  -- Public "Over-Demand" Blamed for Massive Power Outage
  -- No Lessons Learned from Chernobyl : Gov't Commission Report
  

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