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GX Promotion Bill, GX Decarbonized Power Supply Bill Passed Two GX- (Green Transformation) related bills Japan’s government had submitted to the Diet overcame much opposition to be passed. The GX Promotion Act (Act for...
Category: Nuclear Fuel Cycle
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Revisions to Basic Policy on High-level Radioactive Waste Disposal As noted in CNIC’s statement (cnic.jp/english/?p=6519), a ministerial meeting on final disposal of nuclear waste was held on February 10, proposals for revising the basic...
CNIC Statement: Opposing Revisions to the Basic Policy on the Final Disposal of ‘Nuclear Garbage’
16 February 2023 The Kishida Administration held a ministerial meeting on final disposal of nuclear waste on February 10, 2023, announcing revisions to Japan’s basic policy on the final disposal of specified radioactive wastes....
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Injunction to Halt Mihama Unit 3 Operation Rejected Osaka District Court handed down a decision on December 20, 2022 rejecting a request for an injunction against operation of the Unit 3 reactor of the...
CNIC Statement: Withdraw the anachronistic Action Plan to Resuscitate Nuclear Power
30 November 2022 At the meeting of the Nuclear Energy Subcommittee of the Advisory Committee for Natural Resources and Energy on November 28, the secretariat, the Natural Resources and Energy Agency of the Ministry...
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Construction Started on Facilities for Releasing ALPS Treated Water On September 4, Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) began constructing facilities for oceanic release of the contaminated water from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident that...
From Hiroshima to Rokkasho: The continuing nuclear tragedy must be stopped
〜Report on sessions from the World Congress Against Atomic and Hydrogen Bombs By Ban Hideyuki (CNIC Co-Director) The World Congress Against Atomic and Hydrogen Bombs has been held in Hiroshima, marking 77 years since...
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Japan’s Plutonium to be Handed over to France!? The Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA) signed a basic framework agreement with the French company Orano’s recycling subsidiary on March 30 regarding the transport and recycling...
CNIC Statement: Things Japan needs to do regarding nuclear disarmament before “constructing bridges”
Suspend the spent nuclear fuel reprocessing plan, declare its support of No First Use and enshrine the Three Non-Nuclear Principles into law. Citizens’ Nuclear Information CenterJune 23, 2022 The first Meeting of States Parties...
CNIC SYMPOSIUM REPORT: Nuclear Crisis and Peaceful Use of Nuclear Energy: Implications of the Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant Operation
~ Symposium to Commemorate the Launch of the Nuclear Fuel Cycle Special Site of the Citizens’ Nuclear Information Center By Takano Satoshi and Caitlin Stronell (CNIC) On April 28, an international symposium was...