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Takahama Unit 4 Reactor Restarted Kansai Electric Power Co.’s (KEPCO’s) Takahama Unit 4 reactor (PWR, 870 MW) was restarted on May 17. It began power transmission on the 22nd and full operation on the...
Author: Citizens' Nuclear Information Center
Book Review: “YOSHIDA’S DILEMMA One Man’s Struggle to Avert Nuclear Catastrophe Fukushima － March 2011” by Rob Gilhooly
Rob Gilhooly first came to Japan from the UK in 1990, living and working for his first few years in Fukushima as a teacher on the JET Program. He was one of the first...
Nuke Info Tokyo No. 177 (March/April 2017)
PDF Fukushima Now Fukushima Technical Update PuPo 2017 International Plutonium Conference report News Watch: FNCA Symposium Horizon Nuclear Power of the UK Teaming up with Exelon of America Malfunctioning Crane at Tokai Reprocessing...
Six Years after the Accident, Fukushima Increasingly Abandoned
On the 11th of March this year, a full six years passed since the nightmarish Fukushima accident occurred. Has the accident been explained? Has the number of victims stopped increasing? Has the future outlook...
Current State of Post-Accident Operations at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station (August to December 2016)
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, which is released when uranium undergoes fission, and...
PuPo 2017 Report: International Discussion of Japan’s Plutonium Policy ~Towards change for the future
On February 23-24 CNIC, together with the Union of Concerned Scientists, held an international conference at the United Nations University in Tokyo. The theme of the conference was ‘the US-Japan Nuclear Cooperation Agreement and...
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FNCA Symposium The Forum for Nuclear Cooperation in Asia (FNCA), in which Japan’s Cabinet Office and the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology play a central role and which promotes cooperation in...
Who’s Who: Tetsuji Imanaka ~Nuclear Scientist Activist
Tetsuji Imanaka was born in Hiroshima in 1950, a second generation hibakusha. In the post-war recovery period, energy was a big problem in resource-poor Japan and many young people saw nuclear power generation as...
PuPo 2017 Presentations
Please see speakers profiles here Click on the names of speakers below to see their presentation/materials More will be added as they become available DAY 1: 23 February (Thurs) 10.00-10.10 Welcome Speech (Koichi Hasegawa)...
PuPo2017 Statement
CNIC in collaboration with the Union of Concerned Scientists held an international conference titled ‘The US-Japan Nuclear Cooperation Agreement and Japan’s Plutonium Policy’ (PuPo = Plutonium Policy for short). The following statement was signed by...
