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Five Former Prime Ministers Appeal for No Nukes On March 11, ten years to the day after the Fukushima nuclear accident, five former prime ministers of Japan appealed for abandonment of nuclear power. In...
Category: energy policy
CNIC Statement: “Nuclear Safety Culture” Exists Nowhere, Completely Superseded by Economic Egoism
— 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...
Nuclear Power Simply Cannot be Relied on
By Baku Nishio (CNIC Co-Director) On November 3, 2020, Unit 4 of the Ohi Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) began a regular maintenance inspection, which meant that all four of Kansai Electric Power Company’s (Kanden’s)...
CNIC Statement: We condemn the hasty decision to restart Onagawa Nuclear Power Plant Unit 2
Citizens’ Nuclear Information Center November 11, 2020 On November 11, 2020, Miyagi Prefectural Governor Murai Yoshihiro held talks with Onagawa Town Mayor Suda Yoshiaki and Ishinomaki City Mayor Kameyama Hiroshi, the three leaders officially...
Open letter to Japanese ministers demanding a policy change from releasing contaminated water into the ocean to storing it on land.
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....
M E T I announces policy to reduce 100 coal-fired electricity generation plants. But is this just an excuse to force nuclear restarts?
(translation of Citizens’ Nuclear Information Center Statement released on 28 July 2020) On 13 July 2020, at a meeting of the Advisory Committee for Natural Resources and Energy Subcommittee on Basic Policy for Electricity...
Current State and Future Directions of the Fukushima Nuclear Power Station Accident Verification Supervisory Committee
By Ikeuchi Satoru (Chairperson of the Niigata Prefecture Verification Supervisory Committee on the Nuclear Power Station Accident) History and Significance of the Verification Supervisory Committee More than nine years have already passed since the...
Post-Corona Japan, the Quake-Nuke-Maglev Combined Disaster and the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa NPS
By Ishibashi Katsuhiko (Emeritus Professor at Kobe University, Seismologist) There is no telling what will happen with COVID-19, the novel coronavirus pandemic, that should be regarded as a major disaster, but after it dies...
Local political situation around Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Station (KKNPS)
English Summary of article by Yabe Tadao (Co-Director of the network for 3 local citizen groups against the KKNPS) It has been nine years since all reactors at the KKNPS were shut down. Of...
Current situation regarding the court case demanding an injunction on the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Station
English summary of article by Ito Yoshinori (Attorney, member of the legal team) So far, our court case demanding an injunction on the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Station (KKNPS) has had 29 hearings, the last...