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Mayor Who Approves of High-Level Waste Disposal Site Elected in Suttsu Town Race A mayoral election was held on October 20 in Suttsu Town, Hokkaido, along with a by-election for a town council member...
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Mayor Who Approves of High-Level Waste Disposal Site Elected in Suttsu Town Race A mayoral election was held on October 20 in Suttsu Town, Hokkaido, along with a by-election for a town council member...
By Ishida Nobuko(Member of Project to Protect Children’s Health and Future) In 2016, we, the Project to Protect Children’s Health and Future, abbreviated as Kodoken in Japanese, launched a quarterly newsletter, Kodoken Tsūshin. “There...
By Ban Hideyuki and Nishio Baku (CNIC Co-Directors) The Basic Act on Energy Policy was enacted in 2002. This lawmaker-initiated legislation was submitted to the Diet by a group centering on Amari Akira, a...
-Reliable information from nuclear-plant operators is essential for emergency evacuation of local residents- By Sasaki Hiroshi (Vice Chairman of the Niigata Prefectural Committee Investigating Evacuation Methods in a Nuclear Disaster) According to the International...
By Kataoka Ryohei (CNIC) The United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation (UNSCEAR) 1) released its report, Levels and Effects of Radiation Exposure due to the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi...
By Ban Hideyuki (CNIC Co-Director) On July 21, Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings (TEPCO HD) applied to the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry and Minister of State for Nuclear Damage Compensation and Decommissioning...
By Matsukubo Hajime State of the Plant The water temperature in the containment vessels and the spent fuel pools (SFPs) varies mostly around less than 35oC and no great changes have been seen. The...
NRA Suspends Review of Tsuruga Unit 2 The Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) of Japan decided on August 18 to discontinue its review of the Unit 2 reactor at Japan Atomic Power Co.’s (JAPC’s) Tsuruga...
The Long-cherished Friendship between Kamata Satoshi and Takagi Jinzaburo through the Fight against the Nuclear Fuel Cycle By Takagi Kuniko It was about 1977 that I met Kamata Satoshi for the first time. Along...
Published in Japanese on September 23, 2021 We would like to point out that there have been serious misunderstandings about the nuclear fuel cycle in the discussions associated with the current Liberal Democratic Party...