Railroaded through as National Policy?
By Yamaguchi Yukio It is the New Year. Whatever the situation, Happy New Year! In any way you look at it, 2025 was an eventful year with many difficulties. Wars have continued in...
Category: Fukushima
Group Intro: Fukushima Network for Denuclearization — Opposing the national policy! History and Today
By Sato Kazuyoshi (Facilitator, Fukushima Network for Denuclearization) Fifteen years has passed since the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station disaster. The Fukushima Daiichi...
Fukushima Now (29) – Part 2: Current State of Post-Accident Operations at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station (February to August 2025)
By Matsukubo Hajime State of the Plant The water temperature in the containment vessels and the spent fuel pools (SFPs) shows no great variation despite seasonal temperature changes. The state of releases of...
Fukushima Now (29) – Part 1: What Constitutes Responsibility?
By Yamaguchi Yukio ■ In the 14 and a half years that have passed since March 2011, the cesium-137 that was released has finally made it to the halfway point of its half-life....
Post-nuclear-accident Radiation Protection as Seen from the Basic Policy for the Final Disposal of Contaminated Soil
By Tanimura Nobuko Reflections on the aftermath of the nuclear accident The accident at Tokyo Electric Power Company’s Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station brought about radioactive contamination of the environment, and “decontamination” to...
Reviewing the Safety of Nuclear Power Plants – Part 4: Resuming nuclear power generation is a highly dangerous choice that may cause another Fukushima-scale disaster
By Goto Masashi, Doctor of Engineering, Former Nuclear Plant Engineer, Member of Citizens’ Commission on Nuclear Energy 4. The theory of highly complex technology systems indicates that nuclear power plants cannot be free...
News Watch
Former TEPCO Management Not Responsible for Fukushima Nuclear Disaster? Supreme Court and Tokyo High Court Rulings On March 5, in the trial of criminal responsibility for the Fukushima nuclear disaster, the Supreme Court of...
A Starting Point for Improving Working Conditions for Subcontracted Workers at Nuclear Power Plants – Tokyo Labor Relations Commission Orders Takenaka Corp. to Comply with Collective Bargaining Rules
By Kawamoto Hiroyuki, Vice Chair, Union of Nuclear and Radiation-Exposed Workers On January 29 this year, regarding the lack of a response from Takenaka Corp., a primary contractor for work at the Fukushima...
News Watch
Second Experimental Retrieval of Debris Following up on the first experimental retrieval of debris at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station Unit 2 reactor in November 2024 (see the News Watch articles in Nuke...
Reviewing the Safety of Nuclear Power Plants — Part 1: Resuming nuclear power generation is a highly dangerous choice that may cause another Fukushima-scale disaster
By Goto Masashi, Doctor of Engineering, Former Nuclear Plant Engineer, Member of Citizens’ Commission on Nuclear Energy Introduction After the Fukushima nuclear power disaster in 2011, the Japanese government adopted the policy of “reducing...