Ban-san’s News Summary
CNIC’s Co-Director Ban Hideyuki posts a video on YouTube once a month where he discusses recent articles from Japanese newspapers. This is an English summary of the issues he discussed in the April post....
Citizens' Nuclear Information Center Blog
CNIC Statement: TEPCO Must Immediately Stop Construction Work for the Oceanic Release of Contaminated Water
April 26, 2022 Media reports say that TEPCO has begun construction of a discharge facility for the release of contaminated (treated) water into the ocean. A tunnel-excavating boring machine has been transported to the site...
CNIC SYMPOSIUM: Nuclear Crisis and Peaceful Use of Nuclear Energy: Implications of the Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant Operation
~ Symposium to Commemorate the Launch of the Nuclear Fuel Cycle Special Site of the Citizens’ Nuclear Information Center In recent years, the situation regarding nuclear weapons has become increasingly tense: in 2019,...
Nuke Info Tokyo No. 207 (March/April 2022)
Nuke Info Tokyo is a bi-monthly newsletter that aims to provide English speaking friends with up-to-date information on the Japanese nuclear industry and the movements against it. Editor: Caitlin Stronell Translators: Pat...
Urging Support for the 311 Children’s Thyroid Cancer Trial
By Ido Ken’ichi (Attorney) A group of six young people currently aged 17 to 27, who had been living in Fukushima Prefecture at the time of the Fukushima nuclear accident (then 6 to...
The 2022 Fukushima Peoples’ Rally for Achieving a Nuclear-Free Fukushima
By Kikuchi Yukari (Deputy Chair of the Fukushima Prefecture Teachers’ Union) “The 2022 Fukushima Prefectural Residents’ Rally for Achieving a Nuclear-Free Fukushima” was held on March 12, hosted by the planning committee, comprised of...
Reference Material: Statistics Related to the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station Accident
By Matsukubo Hajime (CNIC) Here, we summarize statistics related to the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station accident. In the Fukushima Prefecture Population Trends by Area (Fig.1) the population decline in the Soma-Futaba district is...
New Moves Emerging on Disposal of Disused Equipment from Decommissioned Nuclear Power Plants
By Sueda Kazuhide (Kansai Campaign Against Nuclear Waste) With the arrival of the age of decommissioning of Japanese nuclear power plants (NPPs), an increasing number of nuclear plant operators have launched dismantling and disposal...
Status of Safeguards for Japanese Plutonium Stored in the UK and France
By Matsukubo Hajime (CNIC) For many years, Japan has commissioned the reprocessing of spent fuel to the United Kingdom and France (Table 1). The reprocessing itself of the commissioned spent fuel has already been...
News Watch
‘311 Children’s Thyroid Cancer Suit’ Filed Six people stricken with thyroid cancer as a result of exposure to radiation from the Fukushima nuclear accident filed suit against Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) in Tokyo...
Group Introduction: Fukushima 30-Year Project ~Ten years of fighting something we can’t see~
By Sahara Maki (Director, Fukushima 30-Year Project) Even now, 11 years after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster began, there is still much that is not known, and even among experts there are differing views....
