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Cartoon by Shoji Takagi As is the case overseas, Japan too is looking to introduce a ‘clearance level’ for radioactive waste. Under this system radioactive waste with less than a certain...
Participants in International MOX Assessment Interim Report Public Meeting, Kyoto, October 1996 In October 1987 the first issue of Nuke Info Tokyo (10 pages) was sent to our friends around the world...
by Hideyuki Sato Takeichi Saito sees the present and the future through the sea and through the sea he sees the future of his home town, Iwanai. Born in 1953, Takeichi started measuring the...
Sloppy management has been revealed at Tokyo Electric Power Companys (TEPCO) Fukushima Daiichi, Fukushima Daini (Fukushima Prefecture) and Kashiwazaki/Kariwa (Niigata Prefecture) Power Stations. Examples include tools, plastic sheets and other ‘foreign objects’ being thrown...
It has been revealed during the Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant court case that the government approved Japan Nuclear Fuel Limited’s (JNFL) aircraft crash protection measures, despite the fact that they completely disregarded the issue of...
On 11th February 2004 President Bush, in a speech delivered at the National Defense University, made the following comment: ‘The 40 nations of the Nuclear Suppliers Group should refuse to sell enrichment and reprocessing...
On January 13th the Tomioka (Fukushima Prefecture) office of the Labor Standards Office accepted the claim of Mitsuaki Nagao that his multiple myeloma (a form of bone marrow cancer) was contracted as a...
by Yoko Torihara* Misako Ogawa has been working for eight years as a member of the municipal assembly in the city of Kagoshima, 44 km from the Sendai Nuclear Power Station. She asks questions...
by Miwako Ogiso (Head of the Office for the Accusers Group in the Monju Court Case) METI’s appeal to the Supreme Court Concerning the Monju Fast Breeder Reactor, built by the Japan Nuclear Cycle...
A leak from the Spent Fuel Storage Pool which occurred in Spring 2001 was discussed in NIT No.95 (May/June 2003). Since then Japan Nuclear Fuel Ltd (JNFL) has continued its attempts to identify the...