Nuke Info Tokyo

Nuke Info Tokyo 164 (Jan./Feb. 2015) (2.5MB)

• Children’s Lives after the Fukushima Nuclear Accident
• Samcheok, South Korea, holds “genuine” local referendum on new NPP
      By TAKANO Satoshi, Asia Citizen Network for Peace, S Korea
• Residents of Fukushima’s Iitate Village file petition for nuclear damage compensation to restore home village
  
• CNIC Public Comment on the Draft Report for the New Regulatory Requirements Screening for the Kansai Electric Power Company’s Takahama Nuclear Power Plant
• Report: Gathering with Mr. Kumar Sundaram to learn about the status quo of the nuclear power industry in India
• Who's who: Rika Mashiko, "Fukushima evacuees’ rights at risk"
• News Watch

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2014

Nuke Info Tokyo 163 (Nov./Dec. 2014) (3.2MB)

• Report on the 16th No Nukes Asia Forum
• The Uranium Extraction Policy of Mongolia: The Current Situation, by SELENGE Lkhagvajav
• Report on the struggle of a Nuclear Power Subcommittee Member (2)
  New support policies for nuclear power plants as Japan moves toward the deregulation of electrical power / Excuses for extending the life of Monju
• Nuclear Power Station decommissioning
  Schedule-first policy placing excessive burdens on workers, TEPCO has responsibility to protect workers’ health and jobs.
• Reference Material: Radiation Exposure Data for Nuclear Power Plant Workers (Fiscal Year 2013)
• Reference Material: Japan’s Separated Plutonium Inventory (as of the end of 2013)
• Current State of Post-Accident Operations at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station (May to end October 2014)
  
• Group Intro : From Fukui, the “Nuclear Ginza” Sayonara Genpatsu Fukui Network
• News Watch

     --Designated Waste Accepted for Interim Storage in Fukushima
     --Nuclear Damage Compensation and Decommissioning Facilitation Corp. Launched
     --Electric Power Companies Considering Decommissioning Old Reactors
     --Application for Review of Compatibility of Shika Unit 2 with New Regulatory Requirements
     --Nuclear Disaster Prevention Drills in Fukui
     --Japan and Kazakhstan Sign Nuclear Power Cooperation Memorandum
     --JAEA to Cooperate with Indonesian Agency to Develop High-Temperature Gas-Cooled Reactor
     --Hitachi to Conduct Joint Research with Three American Universities
     --Judgment Recognizing Causality of Nuclear Accident in Suicide Binding

Nuke Info Tokyo 162 (Sep./Oct. 2014) (3.2MB)

• Report on the struggle of a Nuclear Power Subcommittee member:
  Government’s ban on release of video of deliberations and forceful subcommittee management policy
• Public Comments for the Draft Report on Compliance of Sendai Nuclear Power Station with the New Regulatory Requirements
• 2014 World Conference against A & H bombs marks the 69th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Japan
• Contaminated Water Woes at Fukushima Daiichi; Is Seepage Control Possible Using a “Frozen Earth Barrier”?
• Who's who : Yoshitaka Mukohara, A person who lives with nature and who stands against nuclear power plants with an easy-going style
• News Watch

    --Designated Waste Accepted for Interim Storage in Fukushima
    --Nuclear Damage Compensation and Decommissioning Facilitation Corp. Launched
    --Electric Power Companies Considering Decommissioning Old Reactors
    --Application for Review of Compatibility of Shika Unit 2 with New Regulatory Requirements
    --Nuclear Disaster Prevention Drills in Fukui
    --Japan and Kazakhstan Sign Nuclear Power Cooperation Memorandum
    --JAEA to Cooperate with Indonesian Agency to Develop High-Temperature Gas-Cooled Reactor
    --Hitachi to Conduct Joint Research with Three American Universities
    --Judgment Recognizing Causality of Nuclear Accident in Suicide Binding

Nuke Info Tokyo 161 (July/Aug. 2014) (2.5MB)

• A business analysis of Japan’s NPP export to Turkey   by Yasuro Kawai
  
• Summary of Discussions in the Government Radioactive Wastes Working Group -Many unresolved problems remain
  
• Current State of Post-Accident Operations at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station - October 2013 to April 2014
  
• Group Intro : Thirty years of protest against the construction of the high-level radioactive waste disposal facilities
  
• News Watch

　　-- All Towns and Villages of Fukushima Prefecture Call for Decommissioning of All Nuclear Reactors in the Prefecture
　　-- Complete Liberalization  of Retail Electricity Sales
　　-- Members of the Nuclear Regulation Authority to Change
　　-- Tohoku Electric Power Applies for Review of Compliance of Higashidori NPP with New Standards
　　-- Nuclear Power Subcommittee Inaugurated
　　-- Movement for Review of Act on Compensation for Nuclear Damages
　　-- Sendai NPP passes the new regulatory requirements

Nuke Info Tokyo 160 (May/June 2014) (2.4MB)

• Status quo of exposed workers in Fukushima and Japan’s first unified spring labor offensive for nuclear workers
  
• Report of the Iitate Villagers’ Early-stage External Radiation Exposure Assessment Project
  
• Basic Energy Plan Formulated for the First Time since the Great East Japan Earthquake Disaster
  
• Court ruling bans restart of Ohi Nuclear Power Plant
  
• Who's who : Professor Harutoshi Funabashi, Chairperson of the Citizens’ Commission on Nuclear Energy
  
• News Watch

　　-- Pumping to Begin at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station Ground Water Bypass Plan
　　-- A Mistake or an Intentional Act? Highly Contaminated Water Misrouted
　　-- Hakodate City Files Suit to Halt Construction of Ohma Nuclear Power Station
　　-- Vitrified Residue Returns Shipment Arrives from the UK
　　-- Fukushima Daiichi Decommissioning & Decontamination Engineering Company Inaugurated
　　-- Working Group Compiling a Report on Locations for High-Level Waste Processing Facilities

Nuke Info Tokyo 159(March/April 2014) (5.0MB)

• Three years after the Fukushima nuclear disaster, we are hoping to see glimmers of hope
  
• The Current State of Japan’s Nuclear Power Plant Export Plans
• Report from Turkey: Sinop Says No to Nuclear
    by Özgür Gürbüz, Anti Nuclear Platform
• State of Agricultural Research on Radioactive Contamination
• Nuclear Plants and Facilities in East Asia and Japan
  
• Group Introduction: “Square”
  Anti-nuclear residents staging a round-the-clock sit-in in front of the Building of Kyushu Electric Power Co.
  
• News Watch

--100t highly contaminated water leaked at Fukushima Daiichi
--Citizens file for compensation against the suppliers of Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactors
--Mitsubishi Heavy Industries establishes new Turkey Nuclear IPP Development Department
--Japan–Turkey Nuclear Agreement Questioned
--Revisions to Nuclear Damage Liability Facilitation Fund Law and Electric Utility Industry Law Presented to the Diet
--Temporary power loss at Fukushima Daiichi Unit 4 spent fuel pool

Nuke Info Tokyo 158(Jan./Feb. 2014) (3.6MB)

• Recent Shifts in Monju Policy
  The government is attempting the continued use of Monju for the nominal purpose of reducing the volume of radioactive waste
  
• Reference Data: Radiation Exposure Data for Nuclear Power Plant Workers (Fiscal Year 2012)
• Second list of signatures signed by anti-nuclear citizens submitted; total number of signatories rises to 8.38 million
• Current State of Post-Accident Operations at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station (July to December 2013)
  
• Who's who : “Citizen science for the benefit of citizens!” Yugo Ono, A Geographer Who Fights
  
• News Watch

-- Fukushima Daiichi Units 5 and 6 to be decommissioned
-- Completion of Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant and Mutsu Spent Nuclear Fuel Intermediate Storage Facilities postponed
-- Successive applications for examination of NPPs conformity with the new regulatory requirements submitted
-- Unprecedented process used to formulate The Basic Energy Plan
-- Toshiba  reaches agreement on the purchase of NuGen shares

2013

Nuke Info Tokyo 157(Dec./Nov. 2013) (3.0MB)

• No future for Kashiwazaki-Kariwa except gradual decommissioning
  
• The Hydrogen Explosion in Fukushima Daiichi Unit 1 Nuclear Reactor Building Occurred on the 4th Floor, Not the 5th!
  —Possible Small-Break LOCA in IC Pipes from Powerful Seismic Motion—
• Reference Material: Japanese Inventory of Separated Plutonium at the end of calendar year 2012
• Main accidents and breakdowns in nuclear power facilities in FY2010, FY2011, FY2012
  
• Group Introduction : The Organization of Religious Leaders Questioning the Nuclear Energy Administration
  
• News Watch
-- TEPCO drained contaminated water out of the barriers surrounding water tanks at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station, failing to follow standardized procedure
-- Japan speeding up the planned export of nuclear power plants to Turkey
-- Removal of spent fuel from Unit 4 of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station started
-- Inauguration of Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant and Mutsu Interim Spent Fuel Storage Facilities postponed
-- Japan signs the joint statement on the humanitarian impact of nuclear weapons for the first time

-- First comprehensive nuclear disaster drill exercise since the Fukushima disaster organized at Sendai Nuclear Power Plant, Kagoshima

Nuke Info Tokyo 156(Sep./Oct. 2013) (4.5MB)

• The Severe Contaminated Water Situation at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station
  
• Post-accident Cleanup Process at TEPCO Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station (April to June 2013)
• Efforts to settle the nuclear accident in Fukushima continue to hit snags
• Japan Congress against Atomic and Hydrogen Bombs holds international conferences in Fukushima, Hiroshima and Nagasaki
  
• Who's who : Yasuko Yamaguchi
  
• News Watch
  
-- The four Fukushima NPP host towns demand decommissioning of all reactors
-- Compensation negotiations ongoing for Monju in-vessel transfer machine  accident 

-- Basic policies proposed for the Children and Victims Protection Law

-- Basic directions for restructuring JAEA released
-- Construction of sodium engineering research facility begun in earnest

Nuke Info Tokyo 155(July/Aug 2013) (3.8MB)

• Fault directly beneath Tsuruga Unit 2 reactor officially recognized as active
  -Nuclear Regulation Authority’s responsibility is grave-
  
• MOX fuel should not be loaded into reactors but disposed of as waste
• Report on the 82nd CNIC Public Research Meeting
  What are the Problems with the Nuclear Regulation Authority’s New Safety Standards?
• Japanese nuclear watchdog’s order to ban restart of Monju reactor indicates how disorganized the operator is
  
• Resumption of discussions by government working group on nuclear wastes
• Plutonium inventory 2011
  
• Group Introduction : Fukushima Poka-Poka Project
  
• News Watch
  
-- Decommissioning of Fukushima Daiichi’s four reactors rescheduled to be completed earlier than originally planned 
-- Radioactive leak at the Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex (J-PARC)
-- Japan Nuclear Fuel Ltd. and Areva issue a statement of cooperation
-- Vitrification tests end at the Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant
-- Fukushima Prefecture renews demands for the decommissioning of all nuclear power plants in the prefecture

-- “Frozen soil method” to prevent the inflow of groundwater

Nuke Info Tokyo 154(May/Jun 2013) (3.0MB)

• Decontamination – Sluggish and Ineffective
• Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station: Still too many unknowns about the accident and the current condition of the plant
• The Status of Nuclear Fuel Stored at the Fukushima Daiichi and Fukushima Daini Nuclear Power Plants
• Leaking Radioactive Water at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant The rising tide of contaminated water and TEPCO’s makeshift countermeasures
• Anti Nukes Who's Who: Hiroyuki Kawai, Lawyer Fighting to Shut Down All Nuclear Power Plants in Japan “We will continue to fight the nuclear village until we win.”
• News Watch
  
-- Nuclear cooperation agreements signed with UAE and Turkey
-- TEPCO exchanges plutonium with German power company
-- US-ROK civilian nuclear cooperation agreement to be extended for two years
-- MOX fuel for Takahama Unit 3 departs from France
-- Order suspends Monju operation
-- Rat stops spent fuel pool cooling system

Nuke Info Tokyo 153(Mar/Apr 2013) (3.0MB)

• Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station Accident – Two Years On
• An Attempt to Estimate Early-stage Radiation Exposure Dose at the Location of Every Household in Iitate Village, Fukushima
• Problems emerge in operations to bring the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station accident to an end, and in decontamination operations
• Let’s Link with Fukushima! Sayonara Nukes! Huge Rallies on Consecutive Days
• Anti Nukes Who's Who: Kenichi Hasegawa, Dairy farmer maintaining visual records of Iitate Village since the Fukushima nuclear crisis
• News Watch
  
-- New guideline for nuclear disaster countermeasures
-- Radioactive materials released before venting at Fukushima Daiichi NPP Unit 1
-- Japan Atomic Power Co. sells uranium
-- Toshiba to be given preferential negotiation rights in construction of new Finnish NPP
-- Japan Atomic Power Co. and Marubeni to cooperate in Kazakhstan NPP plan
-- Japan to assist Saudi Nuclear Energy Plan
-- HLW returned from the UK

Nuke Info Tokyo 152(Jan/Feb 2013) (1.0MB)

• Review of the Japan Atomic Energy Commission
• Radioactive Contamination of Japanese Tea after the Fukushima Nuclear Accident
• Japan’s Energy Policy Stalemate: Democracy or Vested Interests
• Indonesian Nuclear Stalemate… Until 2014?
• Group Introduction : Radiation-exposed Workers' Solidarity Network
  --Protecting the safety and lives of radiation-exposed workers, who are coerced into trading their health for payments--
• “Solidarity with Fukushima!"
  --Goodbye to Nuclear Power Plants! March 2013--
• News Watch
  
-- Hitachi’s General Headquarters for Overseas Nuclear Power Strategy
-- Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant Begins Glass Vitrification Tests
-- Fracture Zone Investigations Show Active Faults Highly Probable in Nuclear Plant Areas
-- Hamaoka Nuclear Power Plants Embankment Barrier Raised to 22 Meters
-- Britain “Can Accept” Japan’s Plutonium
-- Japan Atomic Energy Commission’s Position on High-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal
-- LDP-New Komeito Return to Power
-- The Fukushima Ministerial Conference on Nuclear Safety
-- Shipment of Vitrified Canisters from Britain in February

2012

Nuke Info Tokyo 151(Nov/Dec 2012) (1.5MB)

• What was clarified by The National Diet of Japan Fukushima Nuclear Accident Independent Investigation Commission? --Focusing on low-level radiation exposure risk--
• The Innovative Strategy for Energy and Environment and its future
• While More Nuclear Power Plants Are Planned in South Korea, the High-voltage Cable Tower Project in Miryang Is Becoming Increasingly Controversial
• Anti Nukes Who's Who : Katsumi Furitsu, Japanese activist working for a nuclear-free world
• News Watch
  
-- Hitachi Buys British Nuclear Power Company

-- JA’s Nuclear Phase-out Policy

-- Ohma Nuclear Plant Construction Restarts

-- Japan-India Joint Statement of Cooperation in Nuclear Power Field

-- License Expires for Sea Landfill of Planned Kaminoseki Nuclear Plant

-- Ordinance for Referendum by Citizens of Shizuoka Prefecture on Restart of Hamaoka Nuclear Plant Fails to Pass

-- Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant Completion Plans Postponed

-- Regulatory Commission Decision on Countermeasure Policy for Nuclear Damage

-- Formulation of Nuclear Energy Policy Outline Frozen

Nuke Info Tokyo 150 (Sep/Oct 2012) (0.9MB)

• International Symposium on the Truth of the Fukushima Nuclear Accident and the Myth of Nuclear Safety August 30 & 31, 2012 University of Tokyo, Komaba Campus
• Actions against Kori 1 Reactor Restart Spread in South Korea ～Closure Demanded～
• Report on the National Diet of Japan Fukushima Nuclear Accident Independent Investigation Commission (NAIIC)
    ～What kind of panel was the NAIIC, and what was clarified by its investigation?～
• Events of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant accident
• Group Intro : Fukushima Nuclear Disaster Criminal Complainants Group
• News Watch
  -- Restart of Ohi Reactor Units 3 and 4
  -- Government Presents Twelve Candidate Areas for Contaminated Soil Storage from Decontamination Work
  -- Shizuoka Prefecture Citizens’ Referendum Request on Hamaoka Nuclear Plant Restart
  -- Nuclear Abolition Law, Proposal in Parliament
  -- “Innovative Energy and Environment Strategy” Announced
  -- Nuclear Safety Commission Finally Inaugurated

Nuke Info Tokyo 149 (July/Aug 2012) (1.1MB)

• Energy options proposed
• The Koodankulam Struggle
• We oppose the restart of Ohi Nuclear Power Plant
• International Symposium on the Truth of the Fukushima Nuclear Accident and the Myth of Nuclear Safety
• Clean-up operation at the nuclear accident site at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station
• Aging Nuclear Power Plants focusing in particular on irradiation embrittlement of pressure vessels
• Anti-Nukes Who's Who: Hiraku Yamami
• News Watch
  -- Hitachi-GE to Accept Order for Lithuanian Nuclear Plant
  -- Demands for Nuclear Plant Decommissioning: A Succession of Lawsuits
  -- Around 7.5 Million Signatures for Nuclear Phase-out Submitted to Government and Diet
  -- New Law Establishes Nuclear Regulatory Commission
  -- Demand for a Citizens' Referendum Ordinance Fails to Pass

Nuke Info Tokyo 148 (May/June 2012) (1.4MB)

• Complete Halt of All Nuclear Power Plants in Japan. But for how long can restarts be prevented?
  
• Labor Standards Inspection Office in Yokohama recognizes death of Fukushima nuclear worker as eligible for compensation
• Inspections of vitrified HLW returning from Britain reveal radioactive contamination on canister surfaces
• International Symposium on the Truth of the Fukushima Nuclear Accident and the Myth of Nuclear Safety
• 15th No Nukes Asia Forum in South Korea
• Aging Nuclear Power Plants focusing in particular on irradiation embrittlement of pressure vessels
• Group Intro: Japan Occupational Safety and Health Resource Center (JOSHRC)
• News Watch
  -- Abolition of Fukushima-1 Reactor Units 1-4
  -- Fiscal Year 2011 Facility Utilization Rate 23.6%
  -- New Standards for Radioactive Cesium in Food
  -- Tokai Mayor demands Minister of Economy decommission Tokai-2
  -- Inaugural Meeting of Mayors for Nuclear Abolition

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
  
  

Nuke Info Tokyo 146 (Jan./Feb. 2012) (1.4MB)

• Government Investigation Committee Releases Interim Report
• Rallies against the Monju Reactor
• Fukushima: Take measures for worker exposure
• Maps of Nuclear Facilities in Asia
• Group Intro: APAST (Union for Alternative Pathways in Science & Technology)
• News Watch
  --Decommissioning requests in successive suits
  --Four nuclear draft cooperation agreements approved
  --Interim contract between Hitachi and the Lithuanian government
  --Evidence of unaccounted for nuclear materials held in large amounts
  --FNCA Ministerial Level Meeting
• Global Conference for a Nuclear Power Free World

2011

Nuke Info Tokyo 145 (Nov./Dec. 2011) (1.2MB)

• Fukushima Nuclear Power Station: Radioactive contamination spreading daily Concerns about damage to health due to radiation exposure
• Redesign the Niigata Method: Close Down the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Station
• Conference Report “Climate and Energy Forum: Towards Energy Efficiency & Safe Options”
• Global Conference for a Nuclear Power Free World (January 14-15, 2012 Yokohama, Japan)
• Plutonium Data
  --Japanese Inventory of Separated Plutonium at 31 December 2010
  --Separated Plutonium in Use from January-December 2010
  --2010 Balance of Separated Plutonium Held in Japan
• The 5th reduced-size edition of the Hangenpatsu-Shinbun
• Anti-Nuke Who's Who : Seiichi Nakate
  Spokesman for Fukushima Network for Saving Children from Radiation
• News Watch
  --Tokai mayor requests decommissioning of Tokai-2
  --Shizuoka municipalities demand permanent shutdown of Hamaoka Nuclear Plant
  --Nuclear abolition resolutions passed in assemblies nationwide
  --Mongolian government drops nuclear disposal site plans
  --Government still fixated on nuclear power exports
• Japan radioactive contamination map
  

Nuke Info Tokyo 144 (Sep./Oct. 2011) (0.9MB)

• "Goodbye to Nuclear Power Plants" Rally
  19 September 2011
• The No Nukes Asia Forum 2011
• Aiming for Renewed Agriculture in the Chernobyl Disaster Area
• Difficult clean-up operations at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station
• Kashiwazaki-Kariwa: Experience of the Chuetsu-Oki Earthquake not Applied
  ―The First Post-3/11 Niigata Prefecture Earthquake and Ground Condition Subcommittee―
• Group Intro: Citizens’ Radioactivity Measurement Station (CRMS)
• News Watch
  --Cabinet establishes Nuclear Safety Agency
  --Tomari-3 moves to commercial operation
  --Transportation of the high-level vitrified wastes to Aomori from U.K.

Nuke Info Tokyo 143 (July/Aug. 2011) (1.3MB)

• TEPCO will do anything to maintain the 'unforseeable' theory
• Lax radiation dose calculations continue at Fukushima Nuclear Power Station
• Reassessment of the geological condition of the ground beneath Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant
• Goodbye to Nuclear Power Plants Rally
• Anti-Nuke Who's Who : Atsuko Ogasawara
• News Watch
  --Lithuania receives bids from Westinghouse and Hitachi-GE Nuclear Energy for NPP project
  --Obama City's municipal assembly adopts antinuclear statement
  --Yamaguchi Prefecture's governor mentions possible suspension of Kaminoseki NPP project
  --Electric power companies hold shareholder meetings
  --Japanese government requests restart of Genkai NPP reactors
• 10 Million Signature Campaign

Nuke Info Tokyo 142 (May/June. 2011) (824KB)

• CNIC Welcomes the Request to Stop All Reactors at Hamaoka NPPThe Fukushima Nuclear Disaster: Evolution of the Crisis and Resulting Radiation Levels
• Fukushima: Radiation Dispersed over a Wide Area
• Is TEPCO Serious about Restarting Kashiwazaki-Kariwa-3 within the Year?
• “Conserve the Sea of Miracles” International Symposium Held to Evaluate the Ecosystem of the Tanoura Cove, Proposed Site of the Kaminoseki NPP
• 25 Years after the Chernobyl Nuclear Accident
• Group Intro: Hairo Action Fukushima
• Examining the Electricity Supply Plans for FY2011

Nuke Info Tokyo 141 (Mar./Apr. 2011) (590KB)

• Explosions at Nuclear Power Plants Tsunami Swanps Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant
• Statement by Group of Concerned Scientists and Engineers Calling for the Closure of the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant
• Can there be a silver lining? Opinion Article published by Kyodo News, March 28, 2011
• Future of Kaminoseki Nuclear Power Plant Uncertain
• Hunger Strike Against Kaminoseki Nuclear Power Plant
• Epidemiological Study of Workers at Nuclear Power Generating Facilities: (4th Period FY2005 to FY2009)
• CNIC Statement Concerning Evacuation from Area Surrounding the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant (March 20, 2011)
• South Texas Project Nuclear Power Plant
• Toshiba-Tenex Enriched Uranium Joint Venture, Japan-Russia Bilateral Nuclear Cooperation Agreement
• Anti-Nuke Who's Who : Hatsumi Ishimaru
• News Watch
  --Permission to operate Fukushima I Unit 1 beyond 40 years granted - one month before it was wiped out by an earthquake and tsunami
  --JAPCO: the best laid schemes of mice and men
  --Cost Increases at Monju, Rokkasho Reprocessing
  --Monju official commits suicide

2010

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2006

Active Tests at the Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant
Cost of Nuclear Power in Japan
Statement by CNIC and Green Action about GNEP
Hamaoka-5 Low Pressure Turbine Vane Takes Flight
Major Incidents at Nuclear Facilities April 2005- March 2006
Anti-Nuke Who's Who: Tetsuya Tanaka
News Watch
--Green light for MOX use at Shimane
--Kyushu Electric sends delegation to Melox
--License application for "clearance"
--Hitachi and GE to receive US order
--CFIUS approves Toshiba's WH acquisition

Nuke Info Tokyo 112 (May/June 2006) (832 KB)

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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