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In each of the past two years, around this time Nuke Info Tokyo has included an article raising the question of whether Japan might some day acquire nuclear weapons (NIT 93, and NIT 99). These...
Past issues of NIT have reported on the fact that our Co-Director, Hideyuki Ban, is a member of the Japanese Atomic Energy Commission’s (AEC) New Nuclear Policy-Planning Council. (Recently AEC determined the official English title. Previously we...
As discussed in NIT 104, a campaign has been launched against two nuclear bills covering, among other things, the introduction of a ‘clearance’ system for some low-level radioactive waste. The official title of the first...
By Teruyuki Matsushita* Teruyuki Matsushita teaching about the forest There’s an unwritten law which says that if you live near a nuclear power plant, it’s hard to do business if you oppose nuclear power....
CNIC frequently refers to legal issues in its articles about the campaigns being waged against nuclear facilities in Japan. We thought readers might be interested in some background on the various legal challenges that...
This article begins with a follow-up on the report in NIT 101 about cracks in the Ohi-3 (PWR, 1,180 MW) reactor vessel head, then reports on the cracks that were discovered later in the...
Protesting in the snow: Scenes outside the gates of the Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant (21 Dec. 2004) Atomic Energy Commission endorses reprocessing On 12 November 2004 the Atomic Energy Commission’s (AEC) Long Term Nuclear...
During the next Diet session, beginning in January 2005, a bill to introduce a ‘clearance’ system will be submitted as an amendment to the Law for the Regulation of Nuclear Source Material, Nuclear Fuel...
By Yukiko Mukai* Shoji Takagi pointing to a pamphlet against the Hamako NPP, for which he drew the illustration Me write an article introducing Shoji Takagi? CNIC asked me to do it, but I’m...