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On March 8, CNIC held an open research seminar at the National Diet. Mary Olson, of the Southeast Office of the Nuclear Information and Resource Service (NIRS), U.S. spoke on ‘Problems regarding America’s MOX...
Plutonium Shipment to Depart Japan for United States – Exposes Failure Of Global Reprocessing Programs March 22nd 2016, Tokyo…The shipment of weapons-grade plutonium at the port of Tokai, Ibaraki prefecture departing later today, exposes...
The ‘Decommission Monju! 2015’ National Public Meeting was held on 5 December 2015 in Fukui City. 750 participants from all over Japan demanded the decommissioning of the Monju fast breeder reactor (FBR). Three of...
by Masafumi Takubo, Kakujoho Website Operator At a regular meeting of the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) of Japan on July 21, the AEC secretariat presented a report saying that Japan’s separated plutonium stockpile had increased...
For most Japanese people Australia is a vast land teeming with unique fauna and where the beef is safe from BSE. Its main tourist attractions are the Sydney Opera House and a massive red...
The government is attempting the continued use of Monju for the nominal purpose of reducing the volume of radioactive waste Rally against the Monju Reactor, 2013 Introduction The fast breeder reactor Monju has been...
It has been decided that the Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA), the national research institute that operates the Monju prototype fast-breeder reactor in Tsuruga, Fukui Prefecture, will be ordered to rebuild its maintenance and...
Statement issued by the NPO Citizens’ Nuclear Information Center Co-directed by Yukio Yamaguchi, Baku Nishio, and Hideyuki Ban MOX fuel should not be loaded into reactors but disposed of as waste Independent Study for...
The government’s Energy and Environment Council (EEC) released its “Innovative Strategy for Energy and the Environment” in the afternoon of September 14, 2012. The innovative strategy was not clearly endorsed by the cabinet. Instead,...
What is the cause of this and how should Japan respond? On Aug. 3, 2011, 76 canisters of vitrified high-level waste (HLW) were shipped from Sellafield in Britain, arriving at the port of Mutsu-Ogawara,...