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Both Kanden and Tohoku Electric Power Co. to Build On-site Spent Fuel Dry Storage Facilities Regarding plans to establish on-site dry storage facilities for spent fuel at the Mihama, Takahama and Ohi nuclear...
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The 2024 Noto Peninsula Earthquake and Shika Nuclear Power Plant
By Kamisawa Chihiro (CNIC) The 2024 Noto Peninsula Earthquake At 16:10 on January 1, a severe, magnitude (Mj – Japan Meteorological Agency magnitude scale), 7.6 earthquake occurred on the Noto Peninsula on the northern...
Updates on the 311 Children’s Thyroid Cancer Trial
Ido Ken’ichi, Attorney 1. Introduction I wrote about the filing of the 311 Children’s Thyroid Cancer Suit in the March/April 2022 issue of Nuke Info Tokyo. cnic.jp/english/?p=5973 In this report I introduce how...
Current State of Post-Accident Operations at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station
(Oct. 2023 to Jan. 2024) By Matsukubo Hajime (CNIC) State of the Plant The water temperature in the containment vessels and the spent fuel pools (SFPs) shows no great variation despite seasonal temperature changes....
Two Accidental Exposure Incidents at Fukushima Daiichi
By Ban Hideyuki (CNIC Co-Director) Two accidents resulting in internal exposures occurred recently at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station, where decommissioning work is in progress. The first was on October 25, 2023...
High School Students Looking Squarely at and Communicating about the Nuclear Accident
By Watanobe Yoshihiro, Fukushima Prefectural Soma High School Teacher A radio documentary program was produced by the Fukushima Prefectural Soma High School Broadcasting Station (the so-called Broadcasting Club) in June 2011. The program, entitled...
My Hope 13 Years After March 11, 2011
By Uno Saeko (GAIA Japan Umitaiwa Team, National Association of Evacuees for the Right to Evacuation) Thirteen years into the Fukushima nuclear accident, while many have forgotten about it, believing it to be over,...
CNIC Statement: 13 Years Later~ Earthquakes, Tsunamis, and Radioactivity
March 11, 2024 On March 11, 2011, the Great East Japan Earthquake, a magnitude 9.0 earthquake, occurred off the Pacific coast of the Tohoku region. This massive earthquake and ensuing tsunami set off...
Newspeak—“Nukes are Safe. Nukes Reduce Carbon.”
By Matsukubo Hajime (CNIC) Looking back at the situation regarding Japanese nuclear reactors in 2023, 12 nuclear reactors (11,608 MW) were operating, an increase of two reactors over the previous year, with Takahama...
Fukushima Now Part 1: ALPS-Treated Contaminated Water
By Yamaguchi Yukio (CNIC Co-Director) Originally, “decommissioning” of the Tokyo Electric Power Company’s Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station (TEPCO FDNPS) was to take 30 to 40 years, but that is all apple pie in...