Ban-san’s News Summary
CNIC’s Co-Director Ban Hideyuki posts a video on YouTube once a month where he discusses recent articles from Japanese newspapers. This is an English summary of the issues he discussed in the April post....
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CNIC’s Co-Director Ban Hideyuki posts a video on YouTube once a month where he discusses recent articles from Japanese newspapers. This is an English summary of the issues he discussed in the April post....
April 26, 2022 Media reports say that TEPCO has begun construction of a discharge facility for the release of contaminated (treated) water into the ocean. A tunnel-excavating boring machine has been transported to the site...
~ Symposium to Commemorate the Launch of the Nuclear Fuel Cycle Special Site of the Citizens’ Nuclear Information Center In recent years, the situation regarding nuclear weapons has become increasingly tense: in 2019,...
Nuke Info Tokyo is a bi-monthly newsletter that aims to provide English speaking friends with up-to-date information on the Japanese nuclear industry and the movements against it. Editor: Caitlin Stronell Translators: Pat...
By Ido Ken’ichi (Attorney) A group of six young people currently aged 17 to 27, who had been living in Fukushima Prefecture at the time of the Fukushima nuclear accident (then 6 to...
By Kikuchi Yukari (Deputy Chair of the Fukushima Prefecture Teachers’ Union) “The 2022 Fukushima Prefectural Residents’ Rally for Achieving a Nuclear-Free Fukushima” was held on March 12, hosted by the planning committee, comprised of...
By Matsukubo Hajime (CNIC) Here, we summarize statistics related to the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station accident. In the Fukushima Prefecture Population Trends by Area (Fig.1) the population decline in the Soma-Futaba district is...
By Sueda Kazuhide (Kansai Campaign Against Nuclear Waste) With the arrival of the age of decommissioning of Japanese nuclear power plants (NPPs), an increasing number of nuclear plant operators have launched dismantling and disposal...
By Matsukubo Hajime (CNIC) For many years, Japan has commissioned the reprocessing of spent fuel to the United Kingdom and France (Table 1). The reprocessing itself of the commissioned spent fuel has already been...
‘311 Children’s Thyroid Cancer Suit’ Filed Six people stricken with thyroid cancer as a result of exposure to radiation from the Fukushima nuclear accident filed suit against Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) in Tokyo...