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By Takano Satoshi (CNIC) The Ministry of Energy, Trade and Industry (METI) established an advisory body, the Radioactive Waste Working Group (RWWG), to administer policies for managing high-level radioactive waste (HLW). The 36th meeting...
~ Symposium to Commemorate the Launch of the Nuclear Fuel Cycle Special Site of the Citizens’ Nuclear Information Center By Takano Satoshi and Caitlin Stronell (CNIC) On April 28, an international symposium was...
NRA Gives Go-ahead for Oceanic Release of Water Contaminated from the Fukushima Nuclear Accident Japan’s Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) approved a draft judgement on May 19 validating the design of facilities for releasing into...
By Inoue Akira (music composer, arranger) “History repeats itself” — humans have said this so many times. Each time a war or human-made disaster occurs, they utter, “We will never make the same mistake...
Citizens’ Nuclear Information Center 2 June 2022 On May 31, Sapporo District Court (Presiding Judge Taniguchi Tetsuya) handed down a verdict suspending the operation of Tomari Nuclear Power Plant. The reason given for the...
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...
