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Negotiations for bilateral nuclear cooperation agreements between Japan and Russia and Japan and Kazakhstan have been continuing for nearly two years. The first round of negotiations with Russia was held on April 26, 2007,...
Active testing of the Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant continues to be plagued by problems and accidents. Since the beginning of 2008, Japan Nuclear Fuel Ltd. (JNFL) has successively extended the schedule for commencing commercial operations...
1. Moves to restart KK-7 Of the seven reactors at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant (KK), all of which have been shut down since the Chuetsu-Oki Earthquake in July 2007, Unit 7 (ABWR, 1356...
A shipment of MOX (mixed plutonium and uranium oxide) fuel bound for Japan left the port of Cherbourg in France on March 5. As predicted, the ships (PNTL’s Pacific Pintail and Pacific Heron) will...
By Hatsumi Ishimaru* Collecting Signatures The Genkai nuclear power station is located in the north west of the island of Kyushu on the tip of Saga Prefecture. With a population of 8,000, Genkai Town...
The man whose body was destroyed from the inside out NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation) has produced an important contribution to the English literature on the criticality accident, which occurred at the JCO nuclear fuel...
The Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant, owned and operated by Japan Nuclear Fuel Ltd. (JNFL), is in the final stage of active testing, but problems with vitrification of high-level radioactive waste to form glass canisters have...
On December 22, the Board of Directors of Chubu Electric Power Company decided that it would terminate operations at Hamaoka Reactors No. 1 (540 MW, BWR) and No. 2 (840 MW, BWR) and replace...
On December 11, the Nuclear Safety Commission (NSC) announced its conclusion that, with a few provisos, the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa-7 Nuclear Power Plant (KK-7) is safe. NSC’s conclusion was based on consideration of the results of...
By Akihiro Tatewaki* I first met Hokuto Muto in September 2006 at a viewing of the film “Rokkasho Rapsody” hosted by a group called “With the Earth”. It might sound like a very global...