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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,...
During the three days from December 1 to 3, the Japanese organizations opposing nuclear power took various actions to demand decommissioning of the “Monju” reactor. The organizations included Fukui Prefecture Citizens Against Nuclear Power,...
The Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant has entered the third year since active testing using spent nuclear fuel came to a halt in December 2008 due to problems with the vitrification facility (see NIT 129). Japan...
The centrifuges at Japan Nuclear Fuel Ltd’s (JNFL) Rokkasho Uranium Enrichment Plant, located four kilometers to the northeast of the Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant, have fallen silent. The last line was shut down on December...
Photo: On the beach facing Monju On December 4, about 1,000 people gathered in Tsuruga City for a public meeting and demonstration to demand the closure of the Monju Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor (FBR,...
