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Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant Completion Delayed by a Year Japan Nuclear Fuel Limited notified the Nuclear Regulation Agency (NRA) of Japan on August 21 that its scheduled date for completion of work on the Rokkasho...
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Group Introduction: Hokkaido Active Citizen’s Association of Science (HACASE)
By Saito Kaizaburo, HACASE Co-ordinator The Hokkaido Active Citizen’s Association of Science (HACASE) was established in November 2015. At present there are about 25 members. The purpose of this group is, firstly, to investigate,...
M E T I announces policy to reduce 100 coal-fired electricity generation plants. But is this just an excuse to force nuclear restarts?
(translation of Citizens’ Nuclear Information Center Statement released on 28 July 2020) On 13 July 2020, at a meeting of the Advisory Committee for Natural Resources and Energy Subcommittee on Basic Policy for Electricity...
Current State and Future Directions of the Fukushima Nuclear Power Station Accident Verification Supervisory Committee
By Ikeuchi Satoru (Chairperson of the Niigata Prefecture Verification Supervisory Committee on the Nuclear Power Station Accident) History and Significance of the Verification Supervisory Committee More than nine years have already passed since the...
Current Situation of the Verification of the Fukushima Nuclear Accident by Niigata Prefecture Technical Committee
English summary of an article by Tanaka Mitsuhiko (Member of the Niigata Prefecture Technical Committee and former Member of the National Diet of Japan Fukushima Nuclear Accident Independent Investigation Commission (NAIIC)) Introduction The Niigata...
Post-Corona Japan, the Quake-Nuke-Maglev Combined Disaster and the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa NPS
By Ishibashi Katsuhiko (Emeritus Professor at Kobe University, Seismologist) There is no telling what will happen with COVID-19, the novel coronavirus pandemic, that should be regarded as a major disaster, but after it dies...
Local political situation around Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Station (KKNPS)
English Summary of article by Yabe Tadao (Co-Director of the network for 3 local citizen groups against the KKNPS) It has been nine years since all reactors at the KKNPS were shut down. Of...
Current situation regarding the court case demanding an injunction on the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Station
English summary of article by Ito Yoshinori (Attorney, member of the legal team) So far, our court case demanding an injunction on the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Station (KKNPS) has had 29 hearings, the last...
Voice of Fukushima Daiichi Evacuee in Niigata Prefecture
This is the second part of our series: “Nine years after 3.11: Listening to the voices of Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster victims” I was robbed of my hometown by the government and TEPCO By...
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Serious Consideration of Overseas Treatment of Radioactive Wastes The Denki Shinbun energy and electricity industry newspaper reported on July 9th that the Agency of Natural Resources and Energy, under Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade...