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The joy of the citizens of Suzu on hearing that the Suzu Nuclear Power Plant plan had been cancelled On Dec. 24th, 2003, Tohoku Electric Power Company officially announced that it was abandoning...
By Mamoru Fukae (Kyushu Denuclearization Network) 17 years have passed since the nuclear accident at Chernobyl, which sent shock waves around the world. While the tragedy of the accident is being eroded from people’s...
Since the criticality accident of September 30th 1999, the inside of the conversion test building, the site of the accident, has been closed to the public. In September, four years after the accident, JCO...
Japan’s first Energy Policy Basic Plan (“Basic Plan”) was decided upon on October 7 by the Cabinet. This plan is devised in accordance with the Energy Policy Basic Law (“Basic Law”), which was promulgated...
The Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) announced a decision entitled “Concerning the Basic Position on Japan’s Use of Plutonium” on August 5, 2003. The Commission took the view that, “In order to avoid giving rise...
On August 29 last year, an announcement was made about the long-term cover-up regarding cracks in the reactor shroud. Over the following year numerous horrifying facts have been revealed one after another. The fragility...
For many years Dr. Saburo Murata has been treating atomic bomb victims of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and Minamata disease* patients. He also works with nuclear industry workers who have been exposed to radiation,...
On July 12th a workshop entitled “An Open Discussion about Nuclear Energy Policy Part 1 — what to do with reprocessing spent nuclear fuels” was held by the Research Group for Geological Disposal Problems,...
This article reports on the levels to which utility workers exposed from the replacement of reactor core shroud and recirculation system pipes based on the data that was made public by the request from...
The fact is that a power failure can occur at any time. Strangely enough, the power failure that occurred on August 14 throughout the east of Canada and the United States, represented about the...
