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It has become clear that TEPCO’s losses from the Fukushima Daiichi NPS accident will exceed 21.5 trillion yen. Since TEPCO alone is incapable of bearing such huge liabilities, METI has decided on the policy...
On August 12, 2016, Shikoku Electric Power Co. (SEPC) restarted Unit 3, an 890-megawatt (MW) pressurized-water reactor (PWR) at its Ikata Nuclear Power Station (INPS) in Ehime Prefecture. This nuclear power plant is situated...
On August 11, 2015, Kyushu Electric Power Company activated Sendai Nuclear Power Station Unit 1 (PWR, 890 MW, located in Satsumasendai City, Kagoshima Prefecture, commissioned in June 1984), and the reactor began power generation...
Inviting Mr. Kumar Sundaram from India, a gathering was held in Tokyo on December 11, 2014 to learn the latest news on the nuclear power industry in India. The meeting was jointly organized by...
Location of the Takahama Nuclear Power Plant Background As a result of reflection on the Tokyo Electric Power Company Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station (FDNPS) accident, the regulation of the use of nuclear...
New support policies for nuclear power plants as Japan moves toward the deregulation of electrical power / Excuses for extending the life of Monju Mr. Hideyuki Ban of CNIC has served as a member...
The Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) implemented a “Call for Scientific and Technical Comments for the Draft Report on the Application for Permission to Alter Installed Kyushu Electric Power Company (Kyushu EPCo) Sendai Nuclear Power...
The nuclear Power Subcommittee1) convened on June 19. As this writer was nominated as a member, I accepted the post with the intention of continuing to assert my anti-nuclear position at the committee meetings....
Yasuro Kawai Leader of a plant engineers’ group monitoring the decommissioning process of nuclear power plants Anti-nuclear movement in Turkey, Photo by AntiNükleer Sinop Introduction The Japan-Turkey Agreement for Cooperation in the Use of...
On April 11, the Japanese cabinet approved the new Basic Energy Plan. The Plan, originally proposed by Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and New Komeito Party Diet members who are considered to be pro-nuclear power,...