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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...
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...
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...
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...
Niigata Prefecture Gubernatorial Election EndsThe Niigata Prefecture gubernatorial election is over. Unfortunately, Chikako Ikeda, who campaigned against the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Station (KKNPS) restart was defeated by 546,670 votes to her 509,568. In Kashiwazaki...
Japan’s Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) finalized the draft of its inspection documents regarding the Application Form for Approval of Changes to Nuclear Facilities for Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s (TEPCO’s) Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Station (below,...
1.) Introduction At the end of September, Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) filed an application for safety inspections of Units 6 and 7 at its Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Station (KKNPS) in Niigata Prefecture with...
There is no end in sight to the accident at Tokyo Electric Power Company’s (TEPCO) Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station. No one knows what type of damage has occurred where inside the reactor and...
– The First Post-3/11 Niigata Prefecture Earthquake and Ground Condition Subcommittee – Introduction In the 1970s the Japanese government produced “The Earthquake Safety Regulatory Guide: Reviewing the Seismic Design of Nuclear Power Reactor Facilities”...
Niigata Prefecture should hold an earthquake and ground condition subcommittee meeting as soon as possible. Although more than 100 days have passed since the accident, nobody knows when and how the problems of the...