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(768 KB) Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Unit 7 Restarted It is the first reactor at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant to be restarted since 16 July 2007, when the plant was struck by the Chuetsu-oki Earthquake. Seismic...
On April 3, the Ministry of Economy Trade and Industry’s Agency for Natural Resources and Energy released the 2009 Fiscal Year (FY09) Electric Supply Plan Outline. The Plan brings together the plans of all...
Otsuki Town rejects radioactive waste dump Close-down of Tsuruga-1 to be delayed Toshiba secures first EPC agreement in US 57.8% Capacity Factor in 2008 Restart of Monju delayed again Otsuki Town rejects radioactive waste...
By Baku Nishio* The National Network Against Nuclear Energy was formed in March 1978, bringing together networks throughout Japan opposed to nuclear energy. A newspaper entitled Hangempatsu Shimbun (Anti-Nuclear Power Newspaper) has been published...
On March 18 the Kanazawa Branch of the Nagoya High Court handed down its verdict on an appeal concerning the Shika-2 Nuclear Power Plant (ABWR, 1,358 MW). The appeal related to a civil suit...
Negotiations for bilateral nuclear cooperation agreements between Japan and Russia and Japan and Kazakhstan have been continuing for nearly two years. The first round of negotiations with Russia was held on April 26, 2007,...
Active testing of the Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant continues to be plagued by problems and accidents. Since the beginning of 2008, Japan Nuclear Fuel Ltd. (JNFL) has successively extended the schedule for commencing commercial operations...
1. Moves to restart KK-7 Of the seven reactors at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant (KK), all of which have been shut down since the Chuetsu-Oki Earthquake in July 2007, Unit 7 (ABWR, 1356...
A shipment of MOX (mixed plutonium and uranium oxide) fuel bound for Japan left the port of Cherbourg in France on March 5. As predicted, the ships (PNTL’s Pacific Pintail and Pacific Heron) will...
(888 KB) Stop MOX Shipments! A shipment of MOX (mixed plutonium and uranium oxide) fuel bound for Japan left the port of Cherbourg in France on March 5. The ships will go around South...
