Voices from Fukushima: 15 years has passed
By Konno Sumio, Vice Director, The Museum of Our Experiences (Oretachi no Denshōkan) On that day, I was in the office of the Onagawa Nuclear Power Plant. I was planning to drive home...
Category: Accident
Voices from Fukushima: My thoughts today
By Abe Yurika “The experience must not be forgotten.” “Such a nuclear disaster must never happen again.” I experienced the nuclear disaster. My family was torn apart. I lost friends and my hometown....
CNIC Statement: 15 Years since the Great East Japan Earthquake and the Severe Nuclear Accident at Fukushima Daiichi
March 11, 2026 By the late 1960s, the plate tectonics theory had been widely accepted in the field of geoscience. Meanwhile, on the Japanese archipelago, the number of nuclear power plants began to increase...
Railroaded through as National Policy?
By Yamaguchi Yukio It is the New Year. Whatever the situation, Happy New Year! In any way you look at it, 2025 was an eventful year with many difficulties. Wars have continued in...
Questioning the Obsolescence of Nuclear Power Plants — Part 2. Lawsuit to Revoke the Permits for Operating Lifetime Extensions for Takahama Units 1 & 2 and Mihama Unit 3: Problems of the Nagoya District Court verdict that did not face up to the risks of superannuated reactors
By Kojima Hiroshi (Plaintiff Attorney) Nagoya District Court verdict On April 14, 2016, a lawsuit to decommission aging nuclear plants at 40 years was filed with the Nagoya District Court to prevent Kansai...
News Watch
Data Fabrication for Hamaoka Restart Safety Review Chubu Electric Power Co. announced on January 5 that suspicions had come to light regarding the selection of representative waves in the seismic motion evaluation for...
Group Intro: Fukushima Network for Denuclearization — Opposing the national policy! History and Today
By Sato Kazuyoshi (Facilitator, Fukushima Network for Denuclearization) Fifteen years has passed since the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station disaster. The Fukushima Daiichi...
CNIC Statement: We strongly protest the restart of Tokyo Electric Power Company’s Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Station Unit 6.
January 23, 2026 On the evening of January 21, Unit 6 of Tokyo Electric Power Company’s (TEPCO’s) Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Station (KKNPS) (ABWR, 1.356GW) in Niigata Prefecture, which had been in shutdown since March...
CNIC Statement: Data Fabrication Found in Formulating the Basic Earthquake Ground Motion for Hamaoka Nuclear Power Station – We demand a thorough investigation and a comprehensive review of the past screening process.
January 8, 2026 On January 5, Chubu Electric Power announced that it had “suspicions that the selection of representative waves in the ground motion evaluation for the Hamaoka Nuclear Power Station had been conducted...
Who’s Who: Hara Asuka – a Rising Star in Niigata under the NPS Restart Crisis
By Kuwabara Mie (Hara Asuka and Kuwabara Mie’s NPS Restart Holdback Project) In Niigata Prefecture, the controversy over the restart of the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) Kashiwazaki–Kariwa Nuclear Power Station, whose operation...