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Public Comments for the Draft Report on Compliance of Sendai Nuclear Power Station with the New Regulatory Requirements Nuke Info Tokyo No. 162

The Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) implemented a “Call for Scientific and Technical Comments for the Draft Report on the Application for Permission to Alter Installed Kyushu Electric Power Company (Kyushu EPCo) Sendai Nuclear Power...

Report on the struggle of a Nuclear Power Subcommittee member: Government’s ban on release of video of deliberations and forceful subcommittee management policy Nuke Info Tokyo No. 162

The nuclear Power Subcommittee1) convened on June 19. As this writer was nominated as a member, I accepted the post with the intention of continuing to assert my anti-nuclear position at the committee meetings....

Group Introduction Thirty years of protest against the construction of the high-level radioactive waste disposal facilities Nuke Info Tokyo No. 161

by Representative, Northern Hokkaido Network against the Invitation of Nuclear Waste Disposal Facilities, Osamu Azuma Rally against the Nuclear Waste Disposal Facility In Horonobe Town, Hokkaido, located in northern Japan at latitude 45º north...

Summary of Discussions in the Government Radioactive Wastes Working Group- Many unresolved problems remain Nuke Info Tokyo No. 161

The Japanese government’s Radioactive Wastes Subcommittee, reestablished in May 2013, comprised of different members from those in the subcommittee under the Electricity and Gas Industry Committee of the Advisory Committee for Natural Resources and...

Anti-Nuke Who’s Who Professor Harutoshi Funabashi, Chairperson of the Citizens’ Commission on Nuclear Energy Nuke Info Tokyo No. 160

by Tsunehide CHINO* Professor Harutoshi Funabashi Professor Harutoshi Funabashi is a sociologist who has carried out research on various themes concerning pollution and environmental issues since the 1980s. As one of the founders of...

Report of the Iitate Villagers’ Early-stage External Radiation Exposure Assessment Project Nuke Info Tokyo No. 160

Tetsuji Imanaka Research Reactor Institute, Kyoto University As we reported in the March/April 2013 issue of Nuke Info Tokyo (No. 153), we started on a project entitled “Assessment of the Initial Radiation Exposure to...