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Trial Conclusion and Sentencing in Fukushima Nuclear Accident Criminal Suit Set for September 19 The Tokyo District Court has set 19 September 2019 as the date for trial conclusion and sentencing of the three...
Author: Citizens' Nuclear Information Center
Who’s Who: Sumitomo Tatsuya-Bringing fresh food and fresh ideas to the Tokushima community
by Miyazaki Shinya, Buddhist temple master, Hannyain Tokushima City The eleventh of March came around again. On this day eight years ago, we experienced a nuclear disaster of an unprecedented scale here in Japan....
Nuke Info Tokyo No. 188 (January/February 2019)
<Please note, from this edition of NIT, Japanese names are written in the Japanese order, family name followed by given name > Report: Korea/Japan Plutonium Symposium: Nuclear Fuel Cycle Policies in Japan and Korea...
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Onagawa Unit 1 to be Decommissioned The Tohoku Electric Power Company submitted a notification of changes to power generation facilities to the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry on December 21, 2018, saying it...
Group Intro: From Minamata disease to opposing nuclear power plants
by Nagano Takafumi, Representative of Minamata Citizens Group for Considering Nuclear Evacuation Plans I have been engaged in the anti-nuclear power movement since 1976. Immediately after the disastrous nuclear accident that occurred at Fukushima...
Report: Korea/Japan Plutonium Symposium Nuclear Fuel Cycle Policies in Japan and Korea ~Impacts and Alternatives~
By Caitlin Stronell and Matsukubo Hajime, CNIC On 26 November 2018 CNIC held an international symposium in collaboration with the Institute for Peace and Cooperation, Korea, as part of a research grant from the...
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries withdraws from the NPP project in Sinop, Turkey ~NPP makers need to switch to realistic track in the age of decommissioning~
By Matsukubo Hajime, CNIC On December 4, 2018, the Nikkei Economic Newspaper published an article entitled: “Turkish NPP: Government-private consortium, including Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, give up on construction.” We were not surprised by this...
Nuke Info Tokyo No. 187 (November/December 2018)
NIT No. 187 (PDF) Blowout panels useless in an accident-Basic design fault in Tokai No. 2 NPP CNIC Statements: Don’t allow Tokai No. 2 NPP to operate beyond 40 years! Don’t Reprocess Fugen’s...
Blowout Panels Useless in an Accident – Basic design fault of the Tokai No.2 NPP
Tokai No. 2 Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) is a Boiling Water Reactor (BWR), the same as the reactors which melted down at Fukushima Daiichi NPS. Its containment vessel is also Mark II type. Tokai...
CNIC Statement: Don’t allow Tokai No. 2 NPP to operate beyond 40 years!
CNIC Statement 7 November 2018 On 7 November, the Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) approved changes to safety regulations that will allow Tokai No. 2 NPP (BWR 1100MW) to operate beyond 40 years. Tokai No....