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11 October 2022 On October 5, at a regular meeting of the Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA), Chairman Yamanaka responded to the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) proposal to eliminate the rule stipulated...
By Takano Satoshi (CNIC) The Ministry of Energy, Trade and Industry (METI) established an advisory body, the Radioactive Waste Working Group (RWWG), to administer policies for managing high-level radioactive waste (HLW). The 36th meeting...
NRA Gives Go-ahead for Oceanic Release of Water Contaminated from the Fukushima Nuclear Accident Japan’s Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) approved a draft judgement on May 19 validating the design of facilities for releasing into...
CNIC’s Co-Director Ban Hideyuki posts a video on YouTube once a month where he discusses recent articles from Japanese newspapers. This is an English summary of the issues he discussed in the April post....
TEPCO’s long history of safety mismanagement and Niigata Prefecture’s investigative committees By Yamaguchi Yukio (CNIC Co-Director) Tokyo Electric Power Company HD, the largest electric power company in Japan, has ten nuclear power reactors...
－Reliable information from nuclear-plant operators is essential for emergency evacuation of local residents－ By Sasaki Hiroshi (Vice Chairman of the Niigata Prefectural Committee Investigating Evacuation Methods in a Nuclear Disaster） According to the International...
By Nishio Baku (CNIC Co-Director) There is a system in place to make it easier for electric power utilities to dispose of low-level radioactive waste from their nuclear power plants (NPPs). In this system,...
(Published in Japanese on June 23) This is the first time that a nuclear power plant that is over 40 years old will be restarted under the rules, implemented after the accident at TEPCO’s...
By Ban Hideyuki （CNIC Co-Director） The Mito District Court (Chief Judge Maeda Eiko) ruled on March 18 that “the nuclear reactor at the Tokai Daini (No. 2) Nuclear Power Station should not be operated.”...
Citizens’ Nuclear Information Center (issued in Japanese on April 29, 2021) On April 28, Fukui Prefecture Governor Sugimoto Tatsuji gave his consent to the operation of Kansai Electric Power Company’s (Kanden’s) Takahama No. 1,...
