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Statement Concerning an Amendment to NSG Guidelines Granting an Exemption for India After extending its deliberations by one day to September 6, an extraordinary meeting of the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) finally agreed to...
SCC in reactor vessels On April 8, Kansai Electric Power Company (KEPCO) announced that during a periodic inspection of its Ohi-3 nuclear power plant (PWR, 1180MW) a crack was found in a nozzle in...
The deception of the Trade and Investment Insurance for Preventing Global Warming scheme On July 29 the Ministry of Economy Trade and Industry (METI) announced the establishment of the Trade and Investment Insurance for...
Japan Nuclear Fuel Ltd. (JNFL) is supposed to be conducting active tests at the Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant, but in reality the plant has been effectively out of action for around nine months since the...
On 20 August 2008 the Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA) announced a change to its schedule for completing plant confirmation tests for the Monju Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor (FBR, 280 MWe). JAEA said that...
(720 KB) Monju Restart Delayed Again The latest delay arose as a result of the very long time taken to check equipment for detecting sodium leaks. Because these checks have taken such a long...
The Nuclear Industrial and Safety Agency (NISA) has published the collective radiation dose incurred in the 2007 fiscal year (April 2007 to March 2008) by people working at nuclear power plants, including Fugen and...
On 7 March 2008, the Federation of Atomic Power Companies published the electric power companies’ plutonium use plans for the 2008 fiscal year. On the same day the Japan Atomic Energy Agency published its research and development...
On September 8, the Atomic Energy Commission published Japan’s inventory of separated plutonium for the end of 2008 (see tables below: page 1, page 2,page 3). The data for plutonium held overseas at the end of...