Author: Citizens' Nuclear Information Center
News Watch (NIT 181)
Data Falsifications by Kobe Steel UncoveredKobe Steel admitted on October 8 to rewriting inspection certificates for some of its products and other misconduct. Since then, one scandal after another has come to light, affecting...
Who’s Who: Naomi Katagiri
Naomi Katagiri: Striving for a better future for Niigata Prefecture Naomi Katagiri is the chairman of New Future Niigata, which was launched in March 2017. The 67-year-old leader is the vice president of Ishikawa...
Nuclear Regulation Authority must withdraw its endorsement of Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant’s compliance to safety standards
Statement from Citizen’s Nuclear Information Center/Group of Concerned Scientists & Engineers Calling for the Closure of Kashiwazaki-Kariwa 4 October 2017 Nuclear Regulation Authority must withdraw its endorsement of Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant’s compliance to...
Nuke Info Tokyo No. 180 (September/October 2017)
PDF Report: Plutonium Delegation to US 2016 Plutonium Data Nuclear Waste Disposal Map Fukushima Now Part 1: Air dose rate data ...
Report: Japanese Delegation visits US to discuss plutonium stockpile and US-Japan 123 Agreement
From September 10 through 15, CNIC, together with Tokyo-based think tank New Diplomacy Initiative, organized a delegation of Diet Members and experts to visit the United States in order to draw attention to the...
Japan’s Separated Plutonium Inventory (as of end of 2016)
On August 1 2017, Japan’s Nuclear Safety Commission released data on plutonium storage conditions as of the end of 2016. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) revised its evaluation methods for unirradiated plutonium in...
Government releases a geoscientific characteristics map showing areas “suitable” for disposal of high-level nuclear waste
cnic.jp/english/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/kagakutekitokuseimap_01-2M.jpg Will the map push the HLW disposal site selection process forward? On July 28, 2017, the Japanese government released a geoscientific characteristics map to provide a basis for selecting locations for high-level nuclear-waste...
Fukushima Now Part 1: The challenge of obtaining accurate air dose rate data in Fukushima
A citizens’ survey team has conducted air dose rate surveys in Fukushima Prefecture starting from May 2011 at a pace of once a year. The date of departure to conduct the survey differs from...
Fukushima Now Part 2: Current State of Post-Accident Operations at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station (January to June 2017)
State of the PlantFrom the water temperature in the containment vessels and the spent fuel pools (SFPs), and from the state of releases of Xenon-135, released when uranium fuel undergoes fission, and other measurements,...