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Anti-Nuke Who’s Who Yoshitaka Mukohara, A person who lives with nature and who stands against nuclear power plants with an easy-going style Nuke Info Tokyo No. 162

by Hiroharu Tsuzuki* Mr. Mukohara is top left. The sign says, “We cannot coexist with nuclear power” Yoshitaka Mukohara was born in 1957 in Hiyoshi-cho, Hioki City, Kagoshima Prefecture. After graduating from the Faculty...

Contaminated Water Woes at Fukushima Daiichi Is Seepage Control Possible Using a “Frozen Earth Barrier”? Nuke Info Tokyo No. 162

The struggle with contaminated water  (Photo by TEPCO) The Battle to Contain Contaminated Water The Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station (FDNPS) has serious water contamination problems. Water injected to cool the nuclear fuel has...

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...