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This article considers costs associated with nuclear energy which were not included in an electricity generation cost comparison published in 2003 by the Agency for Natural Resources and Energy (ANRE). ANRE’s figures are shown...
As reported in NIT 112, active testing (“hot tests”) of the Rokkasho reprocessing plant commenced on 31 March 2006. The tests are scheduled to continue for 16 months until July 2007, during which time...
(580 KB) Map of places mentioned in NIT 113 Active Tests at the Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant Internal exposure to plutonium was one major issue to arise during Step 1 of the hot tests. Already...
11 July 2006 Japan Should Withdraw its Opportunistic, Cynical and Impractical Offer to Cooperate with the US Global Nuclear Energy Partnership Japan has opportunistically jumped on President George Bush’s Global Nuclear Energy Partnership (GNEP)...
Local authority gives green light to Genkai-3 pluthermal planApproval given for the use of MOX fuel at Ikata-3 Chugoku Electric holds meeting to explain Shimane-2 pluthermal plan Damage to reputation from JCO accident recognized...
Rokkasho Uranium Enrichment Plant Verdict On May 9th the Sendai High Court affirmed a lower court ruling rejecting an administrative law case against the Rokkasho Uranium Enrichment Plant. The plaintiffs claimed that the government’s...
By Katsumi Furitsu* Reading Japanese children’s stories at a care center in Belarus Kansai Relief for Chernobyl Hibakusha1 was formed in 1991, five years after the Chernobyl accident and in the same year that...
As promised in NIT 111, CNIC co-hosted an event in Tokyo to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Chernobyl accident. In the afternoon there was a symposium entitled “20 years after the Chernobyl catastrophe...
The first publicly disclosed leak during the active tests at Rokkasho reprocessing plant occurred at 3:40 am on 11 April 2006. Forty liters of radioactive fluid leaked from the hull rinser vessel, which is...
On March 31st “active tests”, using spent nuclear fuel, began at Japan Nuclear Fuel Ltd’s (JNFL) Rokkasho reprocessing plant in Aomori Prefecture. On this day the spent fuel was only carried from the storage...