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...
Author: Citizens' Nuclear Information Center
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...
Current State of Post-Accident Operations at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station July to December 2015 ~Nuke Info Tokyo No. 170
State of the Plant Many of the measuring instruments installed in the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station (FDNPS) measuring system continue to malfunction as a result of the accident and there is no guarantee...
Fukushima Daiichi NPS today- 5 years since the disaster began ~Nuke Info Tokyo No. 170
1) After 5 years, still very little is known about the causes and effects of the Fukushima nuclear disaster A whole five years will soon have passed since the severe accident occurred at...
Selection of disposal sites for radioactive materials from the Fukushima nuclear plant and designation of some areas as candidate sites should be retracted -Nuke Info Tokyo No. 169
Selection of disposal sites for radioactive materials from the Fukushima nuclear plant and designation of some areas as candidate sites should be retracted By Kazuhide Sueda Radioactive substances dispersed during the 2011 Fukushima nuclear...