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Court Overturns Reactor Installation Permit for Ohi Units No. 3 and 4 On December 4, 2020, the Osaka District Court overturned the approval the governmental Nuclear Regulation Authority had granted to Kansai Electric Power...
Category: Fukushima
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....
Current State of Post-Accident Operations at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station (February to July 2020)
By Matsukubo Hajime, CNIC State of the Plant The water temperature in the containment vessels and the spent fuel pools (SFPs) varies mostly around less than 32oC and no great changes have been seen....
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...
Current Situation of the Verification of the Fukushima Nuclear Accident by Niigata Prefecture Technical Committee
English summary of an article by Tanaka Mitsuhiko (Member of the Niigata Prefecture Technical Committee and former Member of the National Diet of Japan Fukushima Nuclear Accident Independent Investigation Commission (NAIIC)) Introduction The Niigata...
Voice of Fukushima Daiichi Evacuee in Niigata Prefecture
This is the second part of our series: “Nine years after 3.11: Listening to the voices of Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster victims” I was robbed of my hometown by the government and TEPCO By...
CNIC Statement: With no decontamination, evacuation orders in radioactive areas of Fukushima should not be lifted
CNIC Statement 22 June, 2020 The Asahi newspaper reported on June 3 that the Ministry of Economics, Trade and Industry, the Environment Ministry and the Reconstruction Agency are investigating ways that evacuation orders, which...
Nine Years After 3.11—Continuing to Lend an Ear and Draw Close Together
More than nine years have elapsed since the tragic nuclear accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station run by Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO). For those forced to undergo the harsh experience of...
Petition demanding that radioactive water stored at Fukushima Daiichi not be released into the ocean
Citizens’ Nuclear Information Center, No Nukes Asia Forum Japan and Friends of the Earth Japan have set up a petition to demand that contaminated water being stored at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station...
Current State of Post-Accident Operations at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station (Sep. 2019 to Jan. 2020)
By Matsukubo Hajime, CNIC State of the Plant The water temperature in the containment vessels and the spent fuel pools (SFPs) varies mostly around less than 32oC and no great changes have been seen....