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On November 20, CNIC released a statement regarding the Tokyo Electric Power Company’s Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Station. The next day, Governor Hanazumi Hideyo of Niigata Prefecture announced approval of the restart of Kashiwazaki-Kariwa NPS....
By Matsukubo Hajime State of the Plant The water temperature in the containment vessels and the spent fuel pools (SFPs) shows no great variation despite seasonal temperature changes. The state of releases of...
By Shibayama Yasuko (The Group of Citizens’ Seeking a Court Decision Ordering the Decommissioning of Nuclear Plants Over 40 years Old) Lawsuit to Decommission Aging Nuclear Reactors at 40 Years: An administrative lawsuit seeking...
Dry Storage Facilities for Spent Fuel to be Established at Sendai Nuke Kyushu Electric Power Co. filed an application with Japan’s Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) on October 24 for approval of dry storage...
By Yamaguchi Yukio ■ In the 14 and a half years that have passed since March 2011, the cesium-137 that was released has finally made it to the halfway point of its half-life....
By Tanimura Nobuko Reflections on the aftermath of the nuclear accident The accident at Tokyo Electric Power Company’s Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station brought about radioactive contamination of the environment, and “decontamination” to...
By Goto Masashi, Doctor of Engineering, Former Nuclear Plant Engineer, Member of Citizens’ Commission on Nuclear Energy 4. The theory of highly complex technology systems indicates that nuclear power plants cannot be free...
Kanden Resumes On-site Survey for Expansion of Mihama Nuke Kansai Electric Power Co. (Kanden) announced on July 22 that it would resume its geological survey for siting a new reactor at its Mihama Nuclear...
Former TEPCO Management Not Responsible for Fukushima Nuclear Disaster? Supreme Court and Tokyo High Court Rulings On March 5, in the trial of criminal responsibility for the Fukushima nuclear disaster, the Supreme Court of...
By Kawamoto Hiroyuki, Vice Chair, Union of Nuclear and Radiation-Exposed Workers On January 29 this year, regarding the lack of a response from Takenaka Corp., a primary contractor for work at the Fukushima...