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‘311 Children’s Thyroid Cancer Suit’ Filed Six people stricken with thyroid cancer as a result of exposure to radiation from the Fukushima nuclear accident filed suit against Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) in Tokyo...
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Group Introduction: Fukushima 30-Year Project ~Ten years of fighting something we can’t see~
By Sahara Maki (Director, Fukushima 30-Year Project) Even now, 11 years after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster began, there is still much that is not known, and even among experts there are differing views....
CNIC Statement: 11 years since the TEPCO Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station accident
March 11, 2022 Eleven years have passed since the Great East Japan Earthquake occurred. The difference between the time (lifespan) of radioactive materials and the time of human society has plagued us for 11...
Resisting through Composing Haiku about the Earthquake Disaster with High School Students
By Nakamura Susumu High School Teacher, Fukushima City 陽炎や被曝者失語者たる我ら How the heat shimmers! Those who were exposed are left Speechless—that is we I am a high school teacher living in Fukushima City. I currently...
Fukushima Now: Current State of Post-Accident Operations at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station (Jul. to Dec. 2021)
By Matsukubo Hajime (CNIC) 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....
South Korea’s Climate Justice Movement Challenges Insidious Governance Strategy with Diverse Tactics
By Takano Satoshi, Ph.D. Candidate, Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Seoul National University The Moon Jae-in administration, by encouraging public debate on nuclear power policy in 2017, has reached a decision on a “nuclear...
Ongoing scandals at TEPCO’s Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Station
TEPCO’s long history of safety mismanagement and Niigata Prefecture’s investigative committees By Yamaguchi Yukio (CNIC Co-Director) Tokyo Electric Power Company HD, the largest electric power company in Japan, has ten nuclear power reactors...
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Japan to Cooperate with America’s Fast Reactor Plans TerraPower, a US nuclear power development venture founded by Bill Gates, is planning to construct a “Natrium™” sodium-cooled fast reactor in the state of Wyoming. The...
Who’s Who: Yoshizawa Masami and the Ranch of Hope
(Interviewed by Caitlin Stronell, NIT editor) Following the meltdowns at TEPCO Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station in March 2011, the government issued an order that all livestock within a 20 km radius of the...
TEPCO’s assessment of the planned radioactive contaminated water release into the Pacific Ocean
Presentation by Shaun Burnie, Senior Nuclear Specialist, Greenpeace East Asia On 18 November 2021, TEPCO published its draft assessment on the radiological impact of their planned discharges of radioactive waste water presently stored at...