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By Ito Fumika (Editor and Writer) On March 19, 2023, the author participated in the 2023 Fukushima Peoples’ Rally for Achieving a Nuclear-Free Fukushima held in Iizaka Town, Fukushima City. The main auditorium of...
—How Will This Affect Restarts of TEPCO’s Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Units 6 and 7?— By Yamaguchi Yukio (CNIC Co-Director) Japan has seven nuclear reactors that have yet to be restarted despite qualifying under the new regulatory...
31 May 2023 On 31 May 2023, the House of Councilors passed the “GX bundled bill,” including legislation to extend the operation period of nuclear power plants and to promote the use of nuclear...
On 13 April 2021, the then Prime Minister of Japan, Suga Yoshihide, announced that his government had authorized the release into the Pacific Ocean of over one million tons of radioactive wastewater from the...
By Ban Hideyuki (CNIC Co-Director) The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) and Tokyo Electric Power Holdings (TEPH) had decided on a policy of oceanic release of the contaminated water, which continues to...
By Matsukubo Hajime (CNIC) Current State of Post-Accident Operations at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station (Jun. to Dec. 2022) State of the Plant The water temperature in the containment vessels and the spent fuel...
Fukushima Prefecture has been implementing thyroid gland examinations for children (born between April 2, 1992 and April 1, 2012) who were living in the prefecture at the time of the earthquake and nuclear disaster....
By Oda Chiyo (Co-Director of Kore Umi) We are a group of citizens who experienced the March 2011 accident of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station (FDNPS). Comprised of members living in and outside...
11 March 2023 Twelve years after the Great East Japan Earthquake and the accident at TEPCO’s Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station, the Government of Japan has announced a policy of a total return to...
On January 27, 2022, a group of six young men and women from Fukushima Prefecture filed a class action lawsuit against Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), claiming that the thyroid cancer they had developed...