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By Yamaguchi Yukio This month marks 14 years since the Fukushima nuclear accident. It was so severe it put Japan under a “nuclear emergency declaration” that is still in effect. Peaceful daily lives...
By Ban Hideyuki (CNIC Co-Director) Two accidents resulting in internal exposures occurred recently at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station, where decommissioning work is in progress. The first was on October 25, 2023...
By Tanimura Nobuko (CNIC) CNIC has compiled nuclear power facility radiation management data based on data published by the Nuclear Regulation Authority. * If we discount the harsh conditions of the decommissioning work at...
By Iida Katsuyasu, NPO Tokyo Occupational Safety and Health Center (TOSHC) The 24th round of ministerial-TEPCO negotiations on radiation-exposed worker issues was held on the afternoon of June 2 in a conference room at...
By Kataoka Ryohei (CNIC) The United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation (UNSCEAR) 1) released its report, Levels and Effects of Radiation Exposure due to the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi...
Report of CNIC Seminar By Kataoka Ryohei A seminar titled “Foreign workers and work in radioactive environments” was held in the Japanese Trade Union Confederation (RENGO)’s Headquarters in Tokyo on May 27, 2019. The...
Recognition of Workers’ Compensation Claims of Nuclear Power Plant Workers in Japan and the Beginning of an International Comparative SurveyThe number of workers registered under the Exposure Dose Registration and Management System up to...
Plutonium Dust Release at Japan Atomic Energy Agency’s Oarai Research and Development Center Fuel Research Building At around 11:15 on June 6, 2017, a plutonium release and exposure accident occurred in an analytical lab...
Developments up to the trialIn 2011, a 42-year-old welder from Fukuoka Prefecture nicknamed “Arakabu-san”1 went to Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station (FDNPS) with an ardent desire to help the people in the disaster-hit...
In October 2015, the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare (MHLW) made public its standard for certifying a worker with leukemia as having suffered an industrial accident and being entitled to worker-compensation benefits. The...