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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...
At a press conference on April 13, President Masataka Shimizu of Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) stated that the company aimed to restart Kashiwazaki-Kariwa-3 (KK-3) within the year. On the following day, April 14,...
1. KK-3 Problems Seismic motion Niigata Prefecture’s subcommittee on equipment integrity and seismic safety began its review of the integrity of Kashiwazaki-Kariwa (KK) Unit 3 (BWR, 1100MW) on December 13, 2010. However it is...
On October 28 Niigata Prefecture’s technical committee, in its third meeting for the year, concluded that it was safe to restart Tokyo Electric Power Company’s (TEPCO) Kashiwazaki-Kariwa No. 5 Reactor (KK-5, BWR, 1100MW). If...
On the afternoon of August 28, 300 people from around Japan gathered at a meeting in Kashiwazaki City hosted by the “Citizens’ Group to Protect Life and Home Town from Nuclear Power Plants”. Three...
