Citizens' Nuclear Information Center
Create No Nukes World With Us
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...
By Nishio Baku (CNIC Co-Director) There is a system in place to make it easier for electric power utilities to dispose of low-level radioactive waste from their nuclear power plants (NPPs). In this system,...
By Matsukubo Hajime（CNIC) On July 12, the Working Group on Verification of Power Generation Cost (hereafter, WG) of the Advisory Committee for Natural Resources and Energy, an advisory body to the Ministry of Economy,...
By Minami Takuto (Kajiwara & Minami Law Firm), Head of Bikini Disaster Litigation Team The Buried and Forgotten ‘Bikini Incident’ In 1954, the USA conducted six thermonuclear tests (commonly known as the “Operation Castle,”...
Barakah Unit 1 Enters Commercial Operation with Turbine and Generator from Toshiba Toshiba Energy Systems announced on June 26 that the Barakah Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) Unit 1 reactor (PWR, 1400 MW) in the...
Let’s move forward cheerfully and actively! By Tsutsumi Shizuo, Representative, Sayonara Genkai NPP Kurume City Group In the face of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power disaster, I thought that we had to not only...
(Published in Japanese on June 23) This is the first time that a nuclear power plant that is over 40 years old will be restarted under the rules, implemented after the accident at TEPCO’s...
The New Plutonium Utilization Plan will Inevitably Fail By Matsukubo Hajime (CNIC) From the very early days of nuclear development, Japan made the decision to reprocess all spent nuclear fuel and use the extracted...
By Ban Hideyuki (CNIC Co-Director) A literature review has been initiated for Suttsu Town and Kamoenai Village in Hokkaido, which is the first stage in the process to host a high-level radioactive waste repository....
By Ban Hideyuki （CNIC Co-Director） The Mito District Court (Chief Judge Maeda Eiko) ruled on March 18 that “the nuclear reactor at the Tokai Daini (No. 2) Nuclear Power Station should not be operated.”...
