Ban-san’s News Summary
CNIC’s Co-Director Ban Hideyuki posts a video on YouTube once a month where he discusses recent articles from Japanese newspapers. This is an English summary of the issues he discussed in the April post....
Category: Accident
CNIC Statement: TEPCO Must Immediately Stop Construction Work for the Oceanic Release of Contaminated Water
April 26, 2022 Media reports say that TEPCO has begun construction of a discharge facility for the release of contaminated (treated) water into the ocean. A tunnel-excavating boring machine has been transported to the site...
Urging Support for the 311 Children’s Thyroid Cancer Trial
By Ido Ken’ichi (Attorney) A group of six young people currently aged 17 to 27, who had been living in Fukushima Prefecture at the time of the Fukushima nuclear accident (then 6 to...
The 2022 Fukushima Peoples’ Rally for Achieving a Nuclear-Free Fukushima
By Kikuchi Yukari (Deputy Chair of the Fukushima Prefecture Teachers’ Union) “The 2022 Fukushima Prefectural Residents’ Rally for Achieving a Nuclear-Free Fukushima” was held on March 12, hosted by the planning committee, comprised of...
Reference Material: Statistics Related to the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station Accident
By Matsukubo Hajime (CNIC) Here, we summarize statistics related to the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station accident. In the Fukushima Prefecture Population Trends by Area (Fig.1) the population decline in the Soma-Futaba district is...
News Watch
‘311 Children’s Thyroid Cancer Suit’ Filed Six people stricken with thyroid cancer as a result of exposure to radiation from the Fukushima nuclear accident filed suit against Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) in Tokyo...
Group Introduction: Fukushima 30-Year Project ~Ten years of fighting something we can’t see~
By Sahara Maki (Director, Fukushima 30-Year Project) Even now, 11 years after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster began, there is still much that is not known, and even among experts there are differing views....
CNIC Statement: 11 years since the TEPCO Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station accident
March 11, 2022 Eleven years have passed since the Great East Japan Earthquake occurred. The difference between the time (lifespan) of radioactive materials and the time of human society has plagued us for 11...
Resisting through Composing Haiku about the Earthquake Disaster with High School Students
By Nakamura Susumu High School Teacher, Fukushima City 陽炎や被曝者失語者たる我ら How the heat shimmers! Those who were exposed are left Speechless—that is we I am a high school teacher living in Fukushima City. I currently...
Fukushima Now: Current State of Post-Accident Operations at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station (Jul. to Dec. 2021)
By Matsukubo Hajime (CNIC) State of the Plant The water temperature in the containment vessels and the spent fuel pools (SFPs) varies mostly around less than 35oC and no great changes have been seen....