Imagining a nuclear-free society
Report on the 100th Public Seminar of the Citizens’ Nuclear Information Centre By Kataoka Ryohei CNIC’s 100th Public Seminar was held on June 23, 2019 at the Korean YMCA in Japan Asia Youth Center....
Author: Citizens' Nuclear Information Center
Foreign workers in Japanese nuclear power plants?
Report of CNIC Seminar By Kataoka Ryohei A seminar titled “Foreign workers and work in radioactive environments” was held in the Japanese Trade Union Confederation (RENGO)’s Headquarters in Tokyo on May 27, 2019. The...
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International Round Table on final Disposal of HLW Participants of the G20 Ministerial Meeting on Energy Transitions and Global Environment for Sustainable Growth, held in Karuizawa, Nagano Prefecture on June 15-16, agreed to set...
Update on Kaminoseki Nuclear Power Plant Project
The Kaminoseki Nuclear Power Plant Project, long stagnating in Yamaguchi Prefecture, is facing a major turning point. Chugoku Electric Power Company, the proposer of the project, plans to build two nuclear reactors in a...
The Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant and Nuclear Weapons ~ Efficient use of resources and waste reduction?
CNIC Symposium Report By Caitlin Stronell On June 4 CNIC held a symposium at the Diet Members Building in Tokyo. The three speakers, Frank von Hippel, a research physicist and emeritus professor with the...
Nuke Info Tokyo No. 190 (May/June 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 Ormsby, Tony...
The history of the anti-nuclear movement on the Kii Peninsula
Women and fishermen keep Wakayama nuclear free by Matsuura Masayo, No Nukes Wakayama In the latter half of the 1960s, Japan was in a period of high economic growth. That was the time when...
Nuclear Power and Coal-fired Power will Hamper Japan’s Shift to a Carbon-free Society
~Our response to the governmental panel’s proposal on Long-Term Growth Strategy under the Paris Agreement~ CNIC Statement, 16 April 2019 The Paris Agreement calls on all parties to combat climate change, and requires them...
The Capacity Market: An overview and issues
By Matsukubo Hajime (CNIC) The reform of the Japanese electric power system, including the deregulation of electric power retailing and the separation of power generation and transmission, occasioned the creation of several new markets....
Government publications play down radiation risks
By Kataoka Ryohei (CNIC) The Reconstruction Agency’s ‘Truth about Radiation’ The Reconstruction Agency compiled a 30-page, A5-sized booklet titled Hoshasen no Honto (Truth about Radiation), which it published and began distributing in March 2018....