Report on 17th No Nukes Asia Forum (NIT No. 171)
From March 22 through March 24, the No Nukes Asia Forum (NNAF) was held in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture. About 30 people from India, Philippines, Turkey, Korea, Hong Kong and Taiwan as well as about...
Author: Citizens' Nuclear Information Center
Nuclear plant restarts and the pluthermal plan ~Report on CNIC open research seminar (NIT No. 171)
On March 8, CNIC held an open research seminar at the National Diet. Mary Olson, of the Southeast Office of the Nuclear Information and Resource Service (NIRS), U.S. spoke on ‘Problems regarding America’s MOX...
30 years since Chernobyl…The impact of the Chernobyl Disaster on Japan’s anti-nuclear power movement (NIT No. 171)
It will soon be 30 years since Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant Unit 4 went out of control and caused a disaster in what was then Soviet Ukraine in 1986. The radioactive substances emitted from...
News Watch (NIT No. 171)
Preparations for Ice Wall Completed at Fukushima Daiichi Construction of equipment for creating a wall of frozen soil to prevent groundwater influx into Fukushima Daiichi units 1 to 4 (no longer operating) was completed...
Book Review: Beyond Fukushima~Toward a Post-Nuclear Society by Koichi Hasegawa (translated by Minako Sato) (NIT No. 171)
Professor Hasegawa originally wrote this book just after 3.11. He was at his home in Sendai at the time the earthquake struck and like many of us in Japan and around the world, he...
Nuke Info Tokyo No. 170 (Dec/Jan 2016)
PDF [4.9 MB] Fukushima Daiichi 5 years on Current state of post-accident operations at Fukushima Report on Monju Public Meetings Update: India-Japan Agreement Group Intro: Tokai Anti-Nuke Action Study Group by Kazumasa Aizawa Newswatch Earthquake-related...
Newswatch ~Nuke Info Tokyo No. 170
Earthquake-related Deaths Top 2,000 in Fukushima Prefecture Fukushima Prefecture announced on December 25, 2015 that the number of certified “related fatalities” occurring within the prefecture as a result of the Great East Japan Earthquake...
Group Introduction: Tokai Anti-nuke Action Study Group ~Nuke Info Tokyo No. 170
On March 11, 1997, Power Reactor and Nuclear Fuel Development Corporation (PNC; now Japan Atomic Energy Agency), located in Tokai Village, Ibaraki Prefecture, which is 100 kilometers north of Tokyo on the Pacific coast,...
How Should We View Last December’s India-Japan Summit? ~Nuke Info Tokyo No. 170
Prime Minister Abe visited India on December 12 last year, where he held a summit with Indian Prime Minister Modi at which they signed a memorandum on entering into a Nuclear Cooperation Agreement...
Decommission Monju! 2015, Stop Takahama Units 3 & 4/ Report on National Public Meetings ~Nuke Info Tokyo No. 170
The ‘Decommission Monju! 2015’ National Public Meeting was held on 5 December 2015 in Fukui City. 750 participants from all over Japan demanded the decommissioning of the Monju fast breeder reactor (FBR). Three of...
