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To Delegates to the 2010 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference Restart of Japan’s Monju Fast Breeder Reactor – Implications for Nuclear Proliferation, Nuclear Safety and Energy Supply On May 6, Japan’s Monju Prototype Fast...
April 6, 2010 Citizens’ Nuclear Information Center* is deeply concerned about the grave risks involved with the restart of the Monju Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor (FBR).1 Safety, economic and nuclear proliferation issues are being...
(544 KB) Monju Restarted for the First Time in 14 Years Be they sodium leak detectors, radiation leak detectors, or temperature monitors, malfunction of the sensors that indicate that something is amiss has become...
Press Release March 23, 2010 Monju Restart: Appeal by Japanese Scientists Japanese scientists concerned about the imminent restart of the Monju Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor issued a statement on March 11 this year. Citizens’...
Pluthermal begins at Ikata-3 Governor and mayors approve pluthermal for Onagawa Fukushima Governor indicates conditional approval for pluthermal KEPCO, Kyushu to jointly ship MOX Local authority approves Tsuruga-1 operation beyond 40 years Request to...
By Mie Kuwabara* Third meeting of Niigata Women Thinking about Life and Nuclear Energy Fifty kilometers away in Niigata City interest in the damage to the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Station caused by the July...
CNIC was requested to provide information on the approval process for construction of nuclear power plants in Japan and in particular on rules and practice relating to public involvement and information disclosure. This article...
Workers’ compensation applicant Ryusuke Umeda: Photo of by Kenji Higuchi Thirty years ago Ryusuke Umeda was exposed to radiation while working at the Shimane and Tsuruga nuclear power plants. In September 2008 he applied...
Tokyo Electric Power Company’s (TEPCO) Kashiwazaki-Kariwa (KK) Nuclear Power Station Unit 6 (ABWR 1,356MW) resumed commercial operations on January 19 this year. KK-7 (also ABWR 1,356MW) resumed commercial operations on December 28 last year,...
Photos by Masakazu Yamauchi of Peace Land The first shipment of high-level radioactive waste (HLW) from the UK arrived in Rokkasho Mutsu-Ogawara Port, Aomori Prefecture on March 9. The shipment left the port of...