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In the six months since the Chuetsu-Oki Earthquake, several things which were hazy at first have become clearer. For example, the stance of Niigata Prefecture is clearer than it was before. (1) Length of...
Four months have passed since the July 16 Chuetsu-Oki Earthquake. As at October 31st, 2,997 problems had been found at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant. Gradually the full scope of the damage is emerging....
The Hamaoka nuclear power plant is safe. You can shake it, but you can’t break it. Thus wrote Judge Akira Miyaoka (long may his name be remembered) of the Shizuoka District Court in his...
The appeal below was released in Tokyo on 21 August 2007 by the Group of Concerned Scientists and Engineers Calling for the Closure of the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant. The group announced its formation...
There were some misleading comments in the IAEA’s August 17 report on the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant (KK), as well as some sensible comments that the pro-nuclear lobby will try to ignore. Below is...
Summary of a conversation between Baku Nishio and Chihiro Kamisawa Nishio: On August 10 TEPCO released some operational data showing the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant’s (KK) behavior during the Chuetsu-Oki Earthquake. TEPCO claims that...
CNIC Report (23 July 2007) At 10:13 am on July 16 a magnitude 6.8 earthquake struck just off the coast of Niigata Prefecture on the Japan Sea side of Honshu, Japan’s largest island. As...
As reported in NIT 117, a web of falsification and deception in Japan’s electric power industry was uncovered late in 2006. On 30 March 2007, all 12 power companies submitted reports to the government....
Only the most hard boiled egg heads took much notice when on June 15 the Hamaoka-5 reactor (ABWR 1380 MW) shut down automatically due to “excessive turbine vibration”, so it was quite a shock...
The first publicly disclosed leak during the active tests at Rokkasho reprocessing plant occurred at 3:40 am on 11 April 2006. Forty liters of radioactive fluid leaked from the hull rinser vessel, which is...