Who’s Who: On Mr. Murakami Tatsuya
By Aizawa Kazumasa, a Tokai Village resident, on July 15, 2025 Murakami Tatsuya made unsparing efforts to expand residential autonomy. As the mayor of Tokai Village, he placed residential autonomy at the center...
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News Watch
Second Experimental Retrieval of Debris Following up on the first experimental retrieval of debris at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station Unit 2 reactor in November 2024 (see the News Watch articles in Nuke...
Reviewing the Safety of Nuclear Power Plants — Part 1: Resuming nuclear power generation is a highly dangerous choice that may cause another Fukushima-scale disaster
By Goto Masashi, Doctor of Engineering, Former Nuclear Plant Engineer, Member of Citizens’ Commission on Nuclear Energy Introduction After the Fukushima nuclear power disaster in 2011, the Japanese government adopted the policy of “reducing...
Reviewing the Safety of Nuclear Power Plants — Part 2: Resuming nuclear power generation is a highly dangerous choice that may cause another Fukushima-scale disaster
By Goto Masashi, Doctor of Engineering, Former Nuclear Plant Engineer, Member of Citizens’ Commission on Nuclear Energy 2. Reviewing the safety of nuclear power plants The first nuclear power plants restarted after the...
Comments on the Analysis of the Fuel Debris Sample Retrieved from the Fukushima Daiichi Unit 2 Reactor
By Sakurai Megumu, former nuclear engineer The Events So Far A fuel debris sample from the Unit 2 reactor of Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s (TEPCO’s) Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station has been extracted...
Environmental Standards and Hazard Maps Are Required to Deal with Radioactive Contamination – Iitate Village Radiation Dose Survey Results and Contamination Forecasts
By Imanaka Tetsuji, Kyoto University Institute for Integrated Radiation and Nuclear Science, Changes in dose rates in Iitate Village Iitate Village lies in the Abukuma Highlands, 30 to 45 km northwest of the...
Fukushima Now (28) – Current State of Post-Accident Operations at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station (August 2024 to January 2025)
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...
Fukushima Now (28) – Will Radioactive Contaminated Soil be Distributed Nationwide?
By Yamaguchi Yukio This month marks 14 years since the Fukushima nuclear accident. It was so severe it put Japan under a “nuclear emergency declaration” that is still in effect. Peaceful daily lives...
14 years after the accident at TEPCO’s Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station: Where is politics and justice headed?
11 March 2025 This year, 14 years after the Great East Japan Earthquake and the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station accident, the Seventh Strategic Energy Plan, which sets the basic direction of the...
Is it Possible for Citizens to Engage in Dialog with the Ministry of the Environment as it Promotes the Recycling of Soil Contaminated by Radioactivity
By Yumiko Fuseya, NPO Shinjuku Yoyogi Citizen Monitoring Center, Citizens Against Dissemination of Radioactivity What is the recycling of removed soil? I would like first to introduce myself. I am Fuseya Yumiko from the...