Author: Citizens' Nuclear Information Center
Nuke Info Tokyo No. 111 (March/April 2006)
(804 KB) Map of places mentioned in NIT 111 Rokkasho: active tests to begin any day Active tests at the Rokkasho reprocessing plant are expected to commence very soon. For the first time, plutonium...
News Watch 110 (January/February 2006) Nuke Info Tokyo No. 110
Toshiba wins bid for WestinghouseCompany established for intermediate storage of spent fuel Construction of Shimane-3 launched Mitsubishi Heavy Industries receives two PBMR contracts Mihama-3 suspension order lifted Onagawa-2 resumes operation General Electric and three...
Group Introduction Shizuoka Network of Citizens Opposed to the Hamaoka Nuclear Power Plant Nuke Info Tokyo No. 110
By Chiyoko Tsukamoto* The first reactor at Chubu Electric Power Company’s Hamaoka Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) in Omaezaki City, Shizuoka Prefecture, commenced operations in 1976. There are now five reactors at the plant. From...
Atomic Energy Commission rubber stamps power companies’ plutonium utilization plans
The following significant developments emerged in regard to the Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant and Japan’s Plutonium Utilization Plan as this edition of NIT was going to press: 1. On 23 January Japan Nuclear Fuel Ltd....
A mobile nuclear reactor comes to Tokyo Bay Nuke Info Tokyo No. 110
By Tsutomu Hirosawa* There is something I want people to understand first of all. That is that nuclear submarines frequently visit the US’s Yokosuka Naval Base. Last year nuclear submarines visited 17 times for...
Foreseeing Japan’s nuclear future Nuke Info Tokyo No. 110
On 8 December 2005, Tohoku Electric Power Company’s Higashidoori-1 (BWR, 1,100 MW) commenced operations. With this new reactor, there are now 54 nuclear reactors in Japan, together having a total output of approximately 48...
Can safety be assured in the Monju modifications? Nuke Info Tokyo No. 110
On 7 February 2005, Fukui Governor Issei Nishikawa granted approval for the start of modifications to the Monju fast breeder reactor (FBR, 280 MW), which had been shut down for over nine years. Upon...
Nuke Info Tokyo No. 110 (Jan./Feb. 2006)
(1 MB) Can safety be assured in the Monju modifications? It is doubtful that Monju’s reliability as a power-generating reactor can be proven, but even if it could be this would be of no...
