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Five Former Prime Ministers Appeal for No Nukes On March 11, ten years to the day after the Fukushima nuclear accident, five former prime ministers of Japan appealed for abandonment of nuclear power. In...
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Group Intro: ‘Children’s Lawsuit Against Radiation Exposure’
By Konno Sumio, Representative Plaintiff A trial was held from August 2014 in which about 200 plaintiffs—parents and children from Fukushima—filed suit in Fukushima District Court calling to account the governments of Japan, Fukushima...
CNIC Statement: “Nuclear Safety Culture” Exists Nowhere, Completely Superseded by Economic Egoism
— Our Response to the Recently Discovered Loss of Nuclear Material Protection Facility Functions at the TEPCO Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Station and the March 18 Court Decision Preventing JAPC from Restarting the Tokai Daini...
CNIC Statement: 10 Years After the Great East Japan Earthquake, Once Again We Question the Justification for Nuclear Power Generation
Citizens’ Nuclear Information Center March 10, 2021 The Declaration of a Nuclear Emergency issued 10 years ago, at 7:03 PM on March 11, has not yet been lifted. Moreover, we are currently under the...
Post-Fukushima Educational Practices
By Omori Naoki (Professor, Center for the Research and Support of Educational Practice, Tokyo Gakugei University) Children exposed to radiation or forced to evacuate as newborns in 2011 are currently in their 5th or...
Radioactive Cesium Contamination of Food After the Fukushima Nuclear Accident Summary up to Fiscal Year 2019
By Tanimura Nobuko (CNIC staff) Introduction Almost ten years have passed since the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) Fukushima nuclear accident occurred in March 2011. Various kinds of foods were contaminated with radioactive substances...
Fukushima Daiichi: Contaminated water should not be dumped in the ocean and radioactive debris should not be removed without debate on the end state
By Ban Hideyuki, CNIC Co-Director Decommissioning work is underway at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station (below, FDNPS), with Fukushima Prefecture requesting that the site be rendered radiation-free vacant land 30 to 40 years...
Fukushima Now Part 1: Human Time, Time of Radioactivity
By Yamaguchi Yukio, CNIC Co-Director Very soon now, ten years will have passed since the Great Eastern Japan Earthquake and the Fukushima nuclear catastrophe. Some aspects of the “recovery” from the hard infrastructure...
Fukushima Now Part 2: Current State of Post-Accident Operations at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station (Aug. 2019 to Dec. 2020)
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...
Exportation of Radioactive Substances by the Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA)
By Tamayama Tomoyo (organic farmer, member of the Tamba-Sasayama City Nuclear Disaster Countermeasures Committee) The White Mesa Mill is the only uranium smeltery that is operating in the U.S. at present. Built at the...