Stop MOX Shipments! Nuke Info Tokyo No. 129
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...
Author: Citizens' Nuclear Information Center
Nuke Info Tokyo No. 129 (March/April 2009)
(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...
News Watch 128 (January/February 2009) Nuke Info Tokyo No. 128
Pluthermal Developments MOX Transports from Europe in First Half of 2009 Sunameri Whales Appeal for Reversal of Permission to Reclaim Sea Application to Build 3rd Reactor at Sendai Uranium Enrichment Plant: Last Cascade Barely...
Group Introduction The Committee to Consider Pluthermal and Saga Prefecture’s Next 100 Years Nuke Info Tokyo No. 128
By Hatsumi Ishimaru* Collecting Signatures The Genkai nuclear power station is located in the north west of the island of Kyushu on the tip of Saga Prefecture. With a population of 8,000, Genkai Town...
Book Review JCO Criticality Accident Nuke Info Tokyo No. 128
The man whose body was destroyed from the inside out NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation) has produced an important contribution to the English literature on the criticality accident, which occurred at the JCO nuclear fuel...
Nuclear Plants and Facilities in East Asia and Japan (Maps current as at January 2009) Nuke Info Tokyo No. 128
1. Nuclear Plants and Facilities in Japan 2. Commercial and Research Nuclear Facilities in Japan 3. Nuclear Plants in Japan 4. Nuclear Plants in Asia (pdf 588 KB) (pdf 520 KB) (pdf 544...
Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant Problems with the Production of Glass Canisters Nuke Info Tokyo No. 128
The Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant, owned and operated by Japan Nuclear Fuel Ltd. (JNFL), is in the final stage of active testing, but problems with vitrification of high-level radioactive waste to form glass canisters have...
Replacement of Hamaoka Reactors 1 and 2 Nuke Info Tokyo No. 128
On December 22, the Board of Directors of Chubu Electric Power Company decided that it would terminate operations at Hamaoka Reactors No. 1 (540 MW, BWR) and No. 2 (840 MW, BWR) and replace...
The Future of Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Unit 7 Nuke Info Tokyo No. 128
On December 11, the Nuclear Safety Commission (NSC) announced its conclusion that, with a few provisos, the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa-7 Nuclear Power Plant (KK-7) is safe. NSC’s conclusion was based on consideration of the results of...
Nuke Info Tokyo No. 128 (January/February 2009)
(1 MB) The Future of Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Unit 7 The bureaucratic processes are in motion to restart Unit 7 of the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant. The Japanese fiscal year ends on March 31. We expect...