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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...
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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...
CNIC Statement: Government’s alarming revision of the public comment system aims to exclude the people’s opinions
April 4, 2025 The Public Comment system is a procedure that was legislated by the Amendments to the Administrative Procedure Act in June 2005, “aiming to ensure the fairness of and to improve...
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Strategic Energy Plan and Other Cabinet Decisions Japan’s government adopted the 7th Strategic Energy Plan on February 18 together with the GX2040 Vision and Plan for Global Warming Countermeasures in cabinet decisions. “GX”...
CNIC Protests the Cabinet Decision on the Seventh Strategic Energy Plan
February 19, 2025 On February 18, 2025, the Ishiba Cabinet approved the Seventh Strategic Energy Plan, which removed the invaluable lesson learned from the accident at TEPCO’s Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station, which...
Envisioning a Future without Nuclear Power
By Matsukubo Hajime, Secretary General, CNIC Happy New Year to all our readers! We wish to express our sincere gratitude for your understanding and cooperation in the activities of the Citizens’ Nuclear Information...
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Onagawa and Shimane Unit 2 Reactors Restarted Nuclear reactors of the same type as Fukushima’s have been restarted at two nuclear power plants (NPPs), marking the first time in the 13 and a half...
CNIC Statement: Safety problems at Onagawa Power Plant Unit 2.
October 29, 2024 The Onagawa Nuclear Power Plant Unit 2 reactor has serious safety problems, but Tohoku Electric Power is heading towards a restart. First of all, let us remind ourselves that the Onagawa...
Fukushima Now (27) Part 1, Troubles Continue – But Will They Manage to Complete the Decommissioning?
By Yamaguchi Yukio I. Thirteen and a half years have passed since the unprecedented catastrophe of the Fukushima nuclear accident. While reflecting on the deep sadness experienced by people who have lost their...
