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January 8, 2026 On January 5, Chubu Electric Power announced that it had “suspicions that the selection of representative waves in the ground motion evaluation for the Hamaoka Nuclear Power Station had been conducted...
By Kuwabara Mie (Hara Asuka and Kuwabara Mie’s NPS Restart Holdback Project) In Niigata Prefecture, the controversy over the restart of the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) Kashiwazaki–Kariwa Nuclear Power Station, whose operation...
On November 20, CNIC released a statement regarding the Tokyo Electric Power Company’s Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Station. The next day, Governor Hanazumi Hideyo of Niigata Prefecture announced approval of the restart of Kashiwazaki-Kariwa NPS....
By Matsukubo Hajime 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. The state of releases of...
By Shibayama Yasuko (The Group of Citizens’ Seeking a Court Decision Ordering the Decommissioning of Nuclear Plants Over 40 years Old) Lawsuit to Decommission Aging Nuclear Reactors at 40 Years: An administrative lawsuit seeking...
Dry Storage Facilities for Spent Fuel to be Established at Sendai Nuke Kyushu Electric Power Co. filed an application with Japan’s Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) on October 24 for approval of dry storage...
By Yamaguchi Yukio ■ In the 14 and a half years that have passed since March 2011, the cesium-137 that was released has finally made it to the halfway point of its half-life....
By Nishio Baku The Citizens’ Nuclear Information Center (CNIC) celebrates its 50th anniversary in September 2025. Taking this opportunity, I would like to review the events of CNIC’s early days for the record. These...
By Tanimura Nobuko Reflections on the aftermath of the nuclear accident The accident at Tokyo Electric Power Company’s Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station brought about radioactive contamination of the environment, and “decontamination” to...
By Goto Masashi, Doctor of Engineering, Former Nuclear Plant Engineer, Member of Citizens’ Commission on Nuclear Energy 4. The theory of highly complex technology systems indicates that nuclear power plants cannot be free...