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Storage tanks at Fukushima Daiichi, Photo by TEPCO Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station is currently facing severe problems with the leakage of water contaminated with radioactive substances. The reality on the site is...
The working group on nuclear wastes, organized under the nuclear energy subcommittee of the electric power industry committee of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry’s Advisory Committee on Natural Resources and Energy, restarted...
It has been decided that the Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA), the national research institute that operates the Monju prototype fast-breeder reactor in Tsuruga, Fukui Prefecture, will be ordered to rebuild its maintenance and...
Speaker: Mr. Satoshi Sato (Director and Vice-President of Master Power Associates Co., Ltd., and former General Electric nuclear power plant engineer) The Photo of 82nd CNIC Public Research Meeting The Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) ...
Statement issued by the NPO Citizens’ Nuclear Information Center Co-directed by Yukio Yamaguchi, Baku Nishio, and Hideyuki Ban MOX fuel should not be loaded into reactors but disposed of as waste Independent Study for...
-Nuclear Regulation Authority’s responsibility is grave- Photo Urazoko Fault trench (by Masako Sawai, April 2008) Figure 1. Locations of Unit 1 and Unit 2 reactor buildings and Urazoko Fault (partially-revised NRA map) On May...
Lawyer Fighting to Shut Down All Nuclear Power Plants in Japan “We will continue to fight the nuclear village until we win.” by Natsuko Matsuda* Mr. Hiroyuki Kawai Hiroyuki Kawai was born in...
This report summarizes the status of nuclear fuel stored at the Fukushima Daiichi (F1) and Fukushima Daini (F2) nuclear power plants. Table 1; Status of Nuclear Fuel Stored at the Fukushima Daiichi and Fukushima...
Figure 1. The inside of the fourth floor in Unit 1 filmed with the use of a balloon. (From TEPCO’s report released on August 8, 2012, titled “Results of investigation on the operating...
Figure 1. Decontamination Zones (From the Ministry of the Environment website) Decontamination is now ongoing in many areas, including Fukushima. This article summarizes the current state of decontamination. Although we use the term “decontamination,”...