Report on 17th No Nukes Asia Forum (NIT No. 171)
From March 22 through March 24, the No Nukes Asia Forum (NNAF) was held in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture. About 30 people from India, Philippines, Turkey, Korea, Hong Kong and Taiwan as well as about...
Category: Accident
30 years since Chernobyl…The impact of the Chernobyl Disaster on Japan’s anti-nuclear power movement (NIT No. 171)
It will soon be 30 years since Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant Unit 4 went out of control and caused a disaster in what was then Soviet Ukraine in 1986. The radioactive substances emitted from...
Book Review: Beyond Fukushima~Toward a Post-Nuclear Society by Koichi Hasegawa (translated by Minako Sato) (NIT No. 171)
Professor Hasegawa originally wrote this book just after 3.11. He was at his home in Sendai at the time the earthquake struck and like many of us in Japan and around the world, he...
Current State of Post-Accident Operations at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station July to December 2015 ~Nuke Info Tokyo No. 170
State of the Plant Many of the measuring instruments installed in the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station (FDNPS) measuring system continue to malfunction as a result of the accident and there is no guarantee...
Fukushima Daiichi NPS today- 5 years since the disaster began ~Nuke Info Tokyo No. 170
1) After 5 years, still very little is known about the causes and effects of the Fukushima nuclear disaster A whole five years will soon have passed since the severe accident occurred at...
Current State of Post-Accident Operations at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station February to June 2015
State of the Plant Many of the measuring instruments installed in the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station (FDNPS) measuring system continue to malfunction as a result of the accident. Although there is no guarantee...
Fukushima’s Educational Facilities by Akira Hino -Nuke Info Tokyo No.166
1. Current State of Fukushima Prefecture Four years have passed since the earthquake and nuclear accident, but almost no progress has been made toward Fukushima Prefecture’s recovery. In particular, the recovery of the Futaba...
Stop Releases of Radioactive Water from Fukushima! -Nuke Info Tokyo NO.166
Stop Releases of Radioactive Water from Fukushima! Please sign this online petition against releases of contaminated water into the Pacific Ocean We call on Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO), the Japanese government and the...
What’s happening with the contaminated water at the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant? -Nuke Info Tokyo No.166
It was disclosed on February 24 that highly radioactive water was leaking from the “K” drainage channel of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station (FDNPS) and was flowing directly into the ocean outside the...
Current State of Post-Accident Operations at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station -Nuke Info Tokyo No.165
State of the Plant Many of the measuring instruments installed in the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station (FDNPS) measuring system continue to malfunction as a result of the accident. Although there is no guarantee...