Fukushima and the ‘Recovery Olympics’
by Caitlin Stronell (CNIC) The Japanese government’s so-called ‘Recovery Olympics’ are looking sicker by the day. Even PM Abe has finally begun to hint that the Olympics may not be able to go ahead...
Category: Accident
CNIC Statement: Nine years since 3.11 – Far away, but very close
March 11, 2020 The anguish of a mother who evacuated to Niigata, fleeing the nuclear accident with her two children, a one-year-old and a three-year-old, comes across clearly. The elder child is now about...
Responses to the Regulatory Standards for the Rokkasho Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing Facility Concerning Changes in the Fuel Conditions
by Kamisawa Chihiro, CNIC staff More than one hundred meetings to discuss compliance of the Rokkasho Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing Facility with the new regulatory standards have now been held since they began on January...
Report on Environmental Radiation Dose Rate Measurements in Fukushima area
by Ban Hideyuki, CNIC Co-Director On May 11, 2011, the author set out to investigate radiation dose rates in the environment. At that time, we had chosen to conduct an investigation starting from the...
Current State of Post-Accident Operations at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station (February to August 2019)
By Matsukubo Hajime, CNIC State of the Plant The water temperature in the containment vessels and the spent fuel pools (SFPs) varies mostly around less than 30oC and no great changes have been seen....
TEPCO Criminal Trial: Defendants Acquitted
– Court Went Completely Out of its Way to Rescue TEPCO Executives by Kaido Yuichi (attorney representing injured parties in TEPCO criminal trial) Failure to acknowledge damage done and debasement of safety In its...
News Watch
Possibility for NRA to Halt Nukes in Operation It appears that Kyushu Electric Power Co.’s Sendai Unit 1 reactor, which has been restarted, will be halted next March. The Unit 2 reactor might also...
Fukushima Now: Current State of Post-Accident Operations at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station (Sep. 2018 to Jan. 2019)
by Matsukubo Hajime, CNIC State of the Plant From the water temperature in the containment vessels and the spent fuel pools (SPFs), and from the state of releases of Xenon-135, released when uranium fuel...
Fukushima Now: As we enter the ninth year – what is meant by “reconstruction”?
by Yamaguchi Yukio, CNIC Co-Director The calls for the “reconstruction of Fukushima” are cacophonous. A large part of the reason for this is next year’s Tokyo Olympics. Having won the bid to host the...
Blowout Panels Useless in an Accident – Basic design fault of the Tokai No.2 NPP
Tokai No. 2 Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) is a Boiling Water Reactor (BWR), the same as the reactors which melted down at Fukushima Daiichi NPS. Its containment vessel is also Mark II type. Tokai...