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Possibility for NRA to Halt Nukes in Operation It appears that Kyushu Electric Power Co.’s Sendai Unit 1 reactor, which has been restarted, will be halted next March. The Unit 2 reactor might also...
Author: Citizens' Nuclear Information Center
Group Introduction: FoE Japan
FoE Japan: Building a peaceful and sustainable world for all by Fukakusa Ayumi, FoE Campaigner, Climate change and energy The non-governmental organization FoE Japan, a member of Friends of the Earth International, has been...
Nuke Info Tokyo No. 189 (March/April 2019)
CONTENTS Fukushima Now: As we enter the ninth year – what is meant by “reconstruction”? Fukushima Now: Current State of Post-Accident Operations at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station (October 2018 to January 2019) Nuclear...
Fukushima Now: Current State of Post-Accident Operations at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station (Sep. 2018 to Jan. 2019)
by Matsukubo Hajime, CNIC State of the Plant From the water temperature in the containment vessels and the spent fuel pools (SPFs), and from the state of releases of Xenon-135, released when uranium fuel...
Fukushima Now: As we enter the ninth year – what is meant by “reconstruction”?
by Yamaguchi Yukio, CNIC Co-Director The calls for the “reconstruction of Fukushima” are cacophonous. A large part of the reason for this is next year’s Tokyo Olympics. Having won the bid to host the...
Nuclear Accident Evacuees Coerced into Meeting Independence Deadline
by Seto Daisaku, Secretary General, Evacuation Cooperation Center Eight years on from the TEPCO Fukushima nuclear accident, the government and Fukushima Prefecture, while making appeals for the reconstruction of Fukushima, are attempting to end...
A perusal of the recently released ‘Decommissioning Implementation Policies’ ~Decommissioning costs grossly underestimated at 15 trillion yen
By Nishio Baku, CNIC Co-Director From 25 to 27 December 2018, Japan’s electric power companies, nuclear fuel cycle businesses and users of nuclear fuel materials posted on their websites their “decommissioning implementation policies” for...
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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...
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...