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By Noritomo Nagase* The Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) is the largest NPP in the world, with 7 reactors and a total power output of 8,212 MWe. It was built by the...
By Chiyoko Tsukamoto* The first reactor at Chubu Electric Power Company’s Hamaoka Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) in Omaezaki City, Shizuoka Prefecture, commenced operations in 1976. There are now five reactors at the plant. From...
By Kiyoshi Teranishi* Workers employed in periodic inspections and maintenance of nuclear power plants (NPP) are forced to work in hot, cramped, radioactive places. Their peace of mind and their health suffer because...
By Fumio Nagata* We are an Iwate Prefecture citizens’ group opposed to the operation of the Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant in Aomori Prefecture. We are concerned about the ocean being polluted with radioactive liquid waste...
By Tetsuo Maeda (Journalist) Not many people devote half their life to writing a single book. Life is too short to operate on that basis. Most writers are like butterflies, flitting from one flower...
By Takayuki Kodera* The Chernobyl Children’s Fund, Japan, was founded in 1991 by photojournalist, Ryuichi Hirokawa. On numerous times following the 1986 accident, Mr. Hirokawa photographed on location, where he met children suffering from...
By Shinji Watanabe* Kyoko Ono (left) and Etsuko Abe In the 16th century, about 450 years ago during the ‘Age of Civil Wars’, the Seto Inland Sea was ruled by a feudal lord, called...
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....
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...
By Hiroshi Miwa* Based in Suzaka City, Nagano Prefecture, the Nagano Soft Energy Resource Center was originally formed in March 1991. At the time it was called the People’s Research Institute on Energy and...