Citizens' Nuclear Information Center
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By Konno Sumio, Representative Plaintiff A trial was held from August 2014 in which about 200 plaintiffs—parents and children from Fukushima—filed suit in Fukushima District Court calling to account the governments of Japan, Fukushima...
— Our Response to the Recently Discovered Loss of Nuclear Material Protection Facility Functions at the TEPCO Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Station and the March 18 Court Decision Preventing JAPC from Restarting the Tokai Daini...
Citizens’ Nuclear Information Center March 10, 2021 The Declaration of a Nuclear Emergency issued 10 years ago, at 7:03 PM on March 11, has not yet been lifted. Moreover, we are currently under the...
By Omori Naoki (Professor, Center for the Research and Support of Educational Practice, Tokyo Gakugei University) Children exposed to radiation or forced to evacuate as newborns in 2011 are currently in their 5th or...
By Tanimura Nobuko (CNIC staff) Introduction Almost ten years have passed since the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) Fukushima nuclear accident occurred in March 2011. Various kinds of foods were contaminated with radioactive substances...
By Ban Hideyuki, CNIC Co-Director Decommissioning work is underway at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station (below, FDNPS), with Fukushima Prefecture requesting that the site be rendered radiation-free vacant land 30 to 40 years...
By Yamaguchi Yukio, CNIC Co-Director Very soon now, ten years will have passed since the Great Eastern Japan Earthquake and the Fukushima nuclear catastrophe. Some aspects of the “recovery” from the hard infrastructure...
By Matsukubo Hajime 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. The...
Court Overturns Reactor Installation Permit for Ohi Units No. 3 and 4 On December 4, 2020, the Osaka District Court overturned the approval the governmental Nuclear Regulation Authority had granted to Kansai Electric Power...
On October 27 the Japanese government will make an official decision on allowing the release of over 1 million tons of contaminated water from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station into the Pacific Ocean....
