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Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant Project Further Postponed Operational Trials Commence at Hamaoka 5 Spent-Fuel Storage Facility Developments Still no candidates for High-Level Waste site Japanese Government to sound out the idea of an Asian...
by Hiroaki Koide* I met Hironori Shinohara when I entered the faculty of Nuclear Engineering in Tohoku University in 1968. At the time, while exhibitions showing the horror of the atomic bomb were being...
Since around the end of 2003 there has been quite a lot of movement on the pluthermal1 issue. This article is a report on these developments. KEPCO In September 2002 Kansai Electric Power Company (KEPCO)...
In April the Ministry of Economy Trade and Industry’s Agency for Natural Resources and Energy announced the 2004(1) Electric Power Supply Plan (EPS Plan). This plan brings together the electric power demand estimates and...
Cartoon by Shoji Takagi As is the case overseas, Japan too is looking to introduce a ‘clearance level’ for radioactive waste. Under this system radioactive waste with less than a certain...
Participants in International MOX Assessment Interim Report Public Meeting, Kyoto, October 1996 In October 1987 the first issue of Nuke Info Tokyo (10 pages) was sent to our friends around the world...
(548 KB) 100th Edition of NIT: To our friends in the anti-nuclear movement around the world In October 1987 the first issue of Nuke Info Tokyo (10 pages) was sent to our friends...
MHI Receives Order for U.S. Repair Work MHI Bids for Reactor Manufacture in China TEPCO Requests Site for Spent Fuel Storage Request for Measures against Exposure to Cosmic Rays A Candidate for the...
by Hideyuki Sato Takeichi Saito sees the present and the future through the sea and through the sea he sees the future of his home town, Iwanai. Born in 1953, Takeichi started measuring the...
Sloppy management has been revealed at Tokyo Electric Power Companys (TEPCO) Fukushima Daiichi, Fukushima Daini (Fukushima Prefecture) and Kashiwazaki/Kariwa (Niigata Prefecture) Power Stations. Examples include tools, plastic sheets and other ‘foreign objects’ being thrown...