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During the next Diet session, beginning in January 2005, a bill to introduce a ‘clearance’ system will be submitted as an amendment to the Law for the Regulation of Nuclear Source Material, Nuclear Fuel...
New Nuclear Policy-Planning Council to reprocess or not to reprocess: four scenarios This page deals with the New Nuclear Policy-Planning Council’s Interim Report Concerning the Nuclear Fuel Cycle Policy released on 12 November 2004. This report...
New Nuclear Policy-Planning Council Costings for Direct Disposal of Spent Nuclear Fuel The following tables and diagrams are taken from calculations of cost comparisons for four scenarios for dealing with spent nuclear fuel. The...
Hitachi Joins in the Development of ESBWR in the U.S. Mitsubishi to Tender for New Reactors in China Government/Industry Panel Formed to Discuss Reactor Export METI Launches a Study Group for Developing Energy...
By Yukiko Mukai* Shoji Takagi pointing to a pamphlet against the Hamako NPP, for which he drew the illustration Me write an article introducing Shoji Takagi? CNIC asked me to do it, but I’m...
The inescapable conclusion that must be drawn from the Mihama-3 accident is that the full length of the piping in nuclear power plants must be checked at regular intervals. This, however, is a conclusion...
Introduction The Atomic Energy Commission’s (AEC) Long Term Nuclear Program sets out Japan’s basic policy on the research, development and utilization of nuclear energy. A review of this program commenced in June (see NIT...
By Gan Nemoto (Ibaraki Anti-Nuclear Collective) Cartoon by Shoji Takagi The Japan Atomic Power Company’s Tokai gas-cooled reactor (magnox, 166 MW), located about 120km north east of Tokyo in Tokai Village, Ibaraki Prefecture is...
Tombstones toppled by the earthquake. Tombstones have long been used as an idicator of the strength of earthquakes. They are still used to gauge the strength of earthquakes that occurred before seismic...