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This article considers costs associated with nuclear energy which were not included in an electricity generation cost comparison published in 2003 by the Agency for Natural Resources and Energy (ANRE). ANRE’s figures are shown...
On 8 December 2005, Tohoku Electric Power Company’s Higashidoori-1 (BWR, 1,100 MW) commenced operations. With this new reactor, there are now 54 nuclear reactors in Japan, together having a total output of approximately 48...
On October 1st, a new research and development agency, Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA), was established. It was established in the name of administrative reform, which aims to promote rationalization and cost reduction...
On September 29th the Nuclear Policy Planning Council (Planning Council) submitted its final draft of the Nuclear Energy Policy Outline (Policy Outline) to the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC). AEC endorsed the Policy Outline on...
From time to time NGOs are invited to send representatives to government policy committees and the like. Frequently, they do so knowing full well that they will be marginalized and that their proposals won’t...
Refer to the two diagrams below for data on electric utilities’ expenditure and the nuclear industry’s sales and orders. On February 4th the Japan Atomic Industrial Forum, Inc. (JAIF) released a report on the state of...
The decline of nuclear energy – as seen in the 2005 Electric Power Supply Plan The Ministry of Economy Trade and Industry’s (METI) Agency for Natural Resources and Energy (ANRE) has released the 2005...
Past issues of NIT have reported on the fact that our Co-Director, Hideyuki Ban, is a member of the Japanese Atomic Energy Commission’s (AEC) New Nuclear Policy-Planning Council. (Recently AEC determined the official English title. Previously we...
As discussed in NIT 104, a campaign has been launched against two nuclear bills covering, among other things, the introduction of a ‘clearance’ system for some low-level radioactive waste. The official title of the first...
Introduction The Atomic Energy Commission’s (AEC) Long Term Nuclear Program sets out Japan’s basic policy on the research, development and utilization of nuclear energy. A review of this program commenced in June (see NIT...