Author: Citizens' Nuclear Information Center
Letter sent to heads of NSG governments on 14 August 2007 (First sentence of paragraph 3 reworded slightly for governments which are not currently represented on the IAEA Board of Governors) Prime Minister …...
Since May 2006, Japan Nuclear Fuel Ltd. (JNFL) has been conducting “active tests” of its Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant in Aomori Prefecture. Step 3 of the 5-step tests was completed in April 2007, but in...
The appeal below was released in Tokyo on 21 August 2007 by the Group of Concerned Scientists and Engineers Calling for the Closure of the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant. The group announced its formation...
There were some misleading comments in the IAEA’s August 17 report on the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant (KK), as well as some sensible comments that the pro-nuclear lobby will try to ignore. Below is...
Summary of a conversation between Baku Nishio and Chihiro Kamisawa Nishio: On August 10 TEPCO released some operational data showing the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant’s (KK) behavior during the Chuetsu-Oki Earthquake. TEPCO claims that...
(504 KB) Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Earthquake: Lessons from the Chuetsu-Oki Earthquake Summary of a conversation between CNIC’s Baku Nishio and Chihiro Kamisawa IAEA Releases Report on Kashiwazaki-Kariwa There were some misleading comments in the IAEA’s August...
On August 20 the Nuclear Industrial and Safety Agency released data relating to worker radiation exposure and the management of radioactive waste at nuclear facilities for the 2006 fiscal year. At nuclear power plants...
On 23 February 2007 the Federation of Electric Power Companies (FEPCO) published a compilation of Japan’s electric power companies’ “plutonium utilization plans” for the 2007 Fiscal Year (1 April 2007 – 31 March 2008). CNIC has...
First application of the “clearance” systemToyo Town and Uken Village enact ordinances rejecting nuclear waste dumps Three HLW laws passed MOX fuel fabrication plant passes first assessment Approval of pluthermal for Hamaoka-4 Mitsubishi Heavy...