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Temporary Injunction against Resumed Operation of Ikata Unit 3 Reactor The Hiroshima High Court issued a provisional decision on January 17 forbidding operation of the Unit 3 reactor at Shikoku Electric Power Company’s Ikata...
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Group Intro: Everyone’s Data Site
Collective Database of Citizens’ Radioactivity Measuring Labs by Nakamura Nahoko, Secretariat, Everyone’s Data Site Compiling the radioactivity data measured by citizens’ labs throughout Japan, Everyone’s Data Site allows users to...
Report on Environmental Radiation Dose Rate Measurements in Fukushima area
by Ban Hideyuki, CNIC Co-Director On May 11, 2011, the author set out to investigate radiation dose rates in the environment. At that time, we had chosen to conduct an investigation starting from the...
What should be done with Japan’s plutonium now stored in the UK? ~ Research trip report
by Caitlin Stronell, CNIC From September 11 to 21, Ban Hideyuki and Caitlin Stronell from CNIC visited the UK in order to survey opinions on what should be done with Japan’s 21.2 tons of...
Current State of Post-Accident Operations at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station (February to August 2019)
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 30oC and no great changes have been seen....
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TEPCO and Others Financially Aiding Japan Atomic Power Co. Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings (TEPCO) and Tohoku Electric Power Co. have decided to provide new aid on top of that which they have provided...
Who’s Who: Torihara Ryōko, inspiring women to oppose the Sendai NPP in Kagoshima
by Ogawa Misako, Kagoshima City Councilor (Independent) Torihara Ryōko is quoted almost every time the Japanese news media covers issues concerning the Sendai Nuclear Power Plant in Kagoshima Prefecture. This is because she is...
Group Intro: Sayonara Nukes Yonezawa
by Ban Hideyuki, CNIC Co-Director Yonezawa is in Yamagata Prefecture, which was the destination for a large number of Fukushima evacuees. Sayonara Nukes Yonezawa was born on 27 April 2013 when a movie screening...
TEPCO Criminal Trial: Defendants Acquitted
– Court Went Completely Out of its Way to Rescue TEPCO Executives by Kaido Yuichi (attorney representing injured parties in TEPCO criminal trial) Failure to acknowledge damage done and debasement of safety In its...
Can Taiwan Phase out Nuclear Power? – Report on the NNAF 2019 Field Trip to Taiwan’s NPPs
by Tony Boys The No Nukes Asia Forum (NNAF) is held in different Asian countries or regions each year. This year, the 19th forum over 26 years was hosted by the Taiwan Environmental Protection...