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Japan’s Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) finalized the draft of its inspection documents regarding the Application Form for Approval of Changes to Nuclear Facilities for Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s (TEPCO’s) Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Station (below,...
Naomi Katagiri: Striving for a better future for Niigata Prefecture Naomi Katagiri is the chairman of New Future Niigata, which was launched in March 2017. The 67-year-old leader is the vice president of Ishikawa...
From September 10 through 15, CNIC, together with Tokyo-based think tank New Diplomacy Initiative, organized a delegation of Diet Members and experts to visit the United States in order to draw attention to the...
cnic.jp/english/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/kagakutekitokuseimap_01-2M.jpg Will the map push the HLW disposal site selection process forward? On July 28, 2017, the Japanese government released a geoscientific characteristics map to provide a basis for selecting locations for high-level nuclear-waste...
A citizens’ survey team has conducted air dose rate surveys in Fukushima Prefecture starting from May 2011 at a pace of once a year. The date of departure to conduct the survey differs from...
State of the PlantFrom the water temperature in the containment vessels and the spent fuel pools (SFPs), and from the state of releases of Xenon-135, released when uranium fuel undergoes fission, and other measurements,...
A SEED JAPAN (Action for Solidarity, Equality, and Environment and Development) was established in 1991 as the Japanese section of the international campaign to deliver the voices of youth to the Earth Summit (United...
Plutonium Dust Release at Japan Atomic Energy Agency’s Oarai Research and Development Center Fuel Research Building At around 11:15 on June 6, 2017, a plutonium release and exposure accident occurred in an analytical lab...
The first court day of the case against former TEPCO executives Tsunehisa Katsumata, Ichiro Takekuro and Sakae Muto for professional negligence leading to fatalities was held on June 30, 2017 in Tokyo District...
Developments up to the trialIn 2011, a 42-year-old welder from Fukuoka Prefecture nicknamed “Arakabu-san”1 went to Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station (FDNPS) with an ardent desire to help the people in the disaster-hit...
