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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...
Author: Citizens' Nuclear Information Center
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....
CNIC Statement: Don’t Reprocess Fugen’s Spent Nuclear Fuel!
Don’t Reprocess Fugen’s Spent Nuclear Fuel!Continue Storing it and Work toward Direct Disposal–Stop the Irresponsible Deferment Policy and Shift away from Reprocessing– CNIC Statement 6 November 2018 Decommissioning work has proceeded on the...
CNIC Statement: Don’t push the risk onto citizens with the amendment of the Compensation for Nuclear Damage Act
CNIC Statement 12 November 2018 On November 2, a bill for the partial amendment of the Compensation for Nuclear Damage Act (hereafter, CND) was submitted to the Diet. In the first place,...
Reference Material: Radiation Exposure Data for Nuclear Industry Workers (FY 2017)
The Nuclear Regulation Authority released the FY 2017 ‘Report on radiation management in nuclear facilities’ on 17 October 2018 (www.nsr.go.jp/data/000249314.pdf) This data was compiled from the section on ‘Management of radioactive waste and exposure...