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Over the years there have been all sorts of cases of data fabrication and falsification at nuclear, thermal and hydroelectric power plants. Each time the power companies and plant makers apologize and say that...
Three stacks of the Rokkasho reprocessing plant (Photo by Noboru Kobayashi) Japan Nuclear Fuel Ltd (JNFL) completed step two of the active tests (“hot tests”) at the Rokkasho reprocessing plant on 6 December...
(700 KB) Step 3 of Active Tests Begins at Rokkasho On January 31st JNFL President, Isami Kojima, announced that the active tests would not be completed until October, meaning that the start of full...
The cost of decommissioning and disposal of nuclear power plants is currently being discussed by the Subcommittee for Improvement of the Investment Conditions in Nuclear Power Generation (hereafter the Subcommittee). This is a subcommittee...
HLW dump developmentsOpposition to impact assessment for HLW dump Another line stops at Rokkasho uranium enrichment plant ITER related facilities to be built in Rokkasho Toshiba runs course on nuclear power in Vietnam FNCA...
By Shigeki Kobayashi and Yuko Oki Our company, KO-OK Productions, is a film production company run by the two of us: Shigeki Kobayashi and Yuko Oki. KO-OK is short for Kobayshi-Oki.We became involved with...
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Proponents of nuclear energy claim that the world is on the verge of a nuclear renaissance. The Japanese nuclear industry is pinning its hopes on Asia. Six Asian countries already possess nuclear power plants:...
Cartoon by Shoji Takagi While the international nuclear industry was busily reorganizing itself into a more oligarchical structure, Japan alone managed to retain three nuclear power plant makers, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI), Toshiba...
(1 MB) Reorganization of Japanese Nuclear Industry Future generations will probably conclude that the industry should have contracted gracefully when it had the chance. Japanese Nuclear Industry Eyes New Nuclear Power Plants in Asia...