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November 15, 2022 The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI), at the 33rd Meeting of the Nuclear Energy Subcommittee of the Advisory Committee for Natural Resources and Energy on November 8, presented the...
11 October 2022 On October 5, at a regular meeting of the Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA), Chairman Yamanaka responded to the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) proposal to eliminate the rule stipulated...
Construction Started on Facilities for Releasing ALPS Treated Water On September 4, Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) began constructing facilities for oceanic release of the contaminated water from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident that...
—Government’s coercive plans to restart nuclear power stations are of major concern— August 26, 2022 At the second meeting of the GX (Green Transformation) Implementation Council, the secretariat, in connection with nuclear power plants,...
By Matsukubo Hajime (CNIC) In the last Edition of NIT, CNIC staff member Takano Satoshi reported on the Radioactive Waste Working Group, which he is a member of. As Takano explained, post-Fukushima especially, government...
By Mitsuta Kanna, FoE Japan On April 6, 2022, Friends of the Earth Japan (FoE Japan) issued a statement protesting the decision of Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC), wholly owned by the Japanese...
By Takano Satoshi (CNIC) The Ministry of Energy, Trade and Industry (METI) established an advisory body, the Radioactive Waste Working Group (RWWG), to administer policies for managing high-level radioactive waste (HLW). The 36th meeting...
By Matsukubo Hajime (CNIC) On October 22, the Kishida cabinet approved the Sixth Strategic Energy Plan, which sets out the country’s medium- and long-term energy policy. The plan was submitted for public comment between...
By Ban Hideyuki and Nishio Baku (CNIC Co-Directors) The Basic Act on Energy Policy was enacted in 2002. This lawmaker-initiated legislation was submitted to the Diet by a group centering on Amari Akira, a...
NRA Suspends Review of Tsuruga Unit 2 The Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) of Japan decided on August 18 to discontinue its review of the Unit 2 reactor at Japan Atomic Power Co.’s (JAPC’s) Tsuruga...