Author: Citizens' Nuclear Information Center
Put New Wine in New Wineskins
The New Plutonium Utilization Plan will Inevitably Fail By Matsukubo Hajime (CNIC) From the very early days of nuclear development, Japan made the decision to reprocess all spent nuclear fuel and use the extracted...
Series of Ordinances Rejecting Nuclear Waste in Communities around Suttsu Town and Kamoenai Village, Hokkaido
By Ban Hideyuki (CNIC Co-Director) A literature review has been initiated for Suttsu Town and Kamoenai Village in Hokkaido, which is the first stage in the process to host a high-level radioactive waste repository....
Judgement Handed down in Tokai Daini NPP Lawsuit: “It must not operate”
By Ban Hideyuki （CNIC Co-Director） The Mito District Court (Chief Judge Maeda Eiko) ruled on March 18 that “the nuclear reactor at the Tokai Daini (No. 2) Nuclear Power Station should not be operated.”...
Reference Material: Impacts of the nuclear accident on Fukushima Prefecture—Evacuee numbers, population by district, primary and junior high school students, agricultural output
By Matsukubo Hajime (CNIC) Statistical data on changes in Fukushima Prefecture’s evacuee numbers, population by district, numbers of primary and junior high school students in areas that were evacuated and agricultural output were used...
CNIC Statement: We Protest the Granting of Consent to Operate the Aging Nuclear Power Plants, Takahama Unit 1 and Unit 2 and Mihama Unit 3, Beyond Their Lifespan of 40 Years
Citizens’ Nuclear Information Center (issued in Japanese on April 29, 2021) On April 28, Fukui Prefecture Governor Sugimoto Tatsuji gave his consent to the operation of Kansai Electric Power Company’s (Kanden’s) Takahama No. 1,...
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Order to Halt Preparations for Kashiwazaki-Kariwa NPP Restart Japan’s Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) issued a corrective measures order on April 14th to Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO), prohibiting the transfer of nuclear fuel to...
WHO’s WHO: Shibahara Yōichi, a key person who passes down the story of how the Ashihama NPP Project was stopped
By Yoshii Michiko, Professor at Dept. of International Communication, Faculty of Humanities, Okinawa University Mie Prefecture, located in the southern part of the mid-Japan region, where the biggest city is Nagoya, hosts no nuclear...
CNIC Survey on attitudes towards the Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant in Aomori and Iwate Prefectures
The Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant (RRP) is designed to extract plutonium from spent nuclear fuel and has been under construction for nearly 30 years. It is a key part of the Japanese government’s nuclear fuel...
CNIC Statement: We strongly protest the decision to discharge ALPS treated water into the Pacific Ocean and demand the withdrawal of this policy
<English Translation of Statement published on April 10, 2021> Citizens’ Nuclear Information Center Co-Directors: Yamaguchi Yukio, Nishio Baku, Ban Hideyuki It is reported that the government will decide on April 13 whether to release...