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High Court Overturns Suspension of Ohi Nuclear Power StationOn July 4th, the Kanazawa Branch of the Nagoya High Court overturned the Fukui District Court’s decision (May 21, 2014) to suspend operations of Units 3...
Author: Citizens' Nuclear Information Center
Who’s Who: Satoshi Tatara, i Coop Miyagi
Life in pursuit of safety and coexistence Seven years has passed since the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station. The accident emitted a huge amount of radioactive substances, which placed...
Nuke Info Tokyo No. 184 (May/June 2018)
NIT No. 184 pdf Citizens heap criticism on the draft revisions to the Strategic Energy Plan Commentary: Why wasn’t TEPCO bankrupted? CNIC Statement : Liquidate TEPCO! Reference Material: Accidents and Breakdowns Occurring at Nuclear...
Citizens heap criticism on the draft revisions to the Strategic Energy Plan
On May 16, the Strategic Policy Committee of the Advisory Committee for Natural Resources and Energy under the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) released the draft for the 5th Strategic Energy Plan....
Commentary: Why wasn’t TEPCO bankrupted?
The nuclear accident at Tokyo Electric Power Company’s (TEPCO’s) Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station (FDNPS) has left TEPCO under a huge pile of debt. At the time, there were arguments in favor of dissolving...
CNIC Statement, April 11, 2018 : Liquidate TEPCO!
On April 5, 2018, the government’s Nuclear Damage Compensation Dispute Resolution Center notified residents of Namie Town, Fukushima Prefecture, and TEPCO of its decision to discontinue its efforts to achieve an Alternate Dispute Resolution...
Reference Material: Accidents and Breakdowns Occurring at Nuclear Power Plants and Nuclear Fuel-Related Facilities (FY2017)
CNIC has compiled a list of accidents and breakdowns occurring at nuclear power plants and nuclear fuel-related facilities in FY2017 (April 1, 2017 to March 31, 2018) from the following four sources.(1) Reports based...
CNIC Seminar report: The problems with Japan’s Plutonium: What are they and how do we deal with them?
On April 20, CNIC organized a seminar with guest speaker Prof. Frank von Hippel, a nuclear physicist from Princeton University’s Program on Science and Global Security, presenting alternative ways to dispose of spent fuel...
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Itochu Withdraws from Turkish NPP ProjectThe trading house Itochu was to have a greater than 10 percent stake in a company (not yet established), it was said, that would run the Sinop Nuclear Power...
Group Introduction: No Nukes Wakayama
The nuclear plant was defeated but the battle against the interim storage facility continuesIt...