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Location of the Takahama Nuclear Power Plant Background As a result of reflection on the Tokyo Electric Power Company Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station (FDNPS) accident, the regulation of the use of nuclear...
The Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) implemented a “Call for Scientific and Technical Comments for the Draft Report on the Application for Permission to Alter Installed Kyushu Electric Power Company (Kyushu EPCo) Sendai Nuclear Power...
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...
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...
Speaker: Mr. Satoshi Sato (Director and Vice-President of Master Power Associates Co., Ltd., and former General Electric nuclear power plant engineer) The Photo of 82nd CNIC Public Research Meeting The Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) ...
-Nuclear Regulation Authority’s responsibility is grave- Photo Urazoko Fault trench (by Masako Sawai, April 2008) Figure 1. Locations of Unit 1 and Unit 2 reactor buildings and Urazoko Fault (partially-revised NRA map) On May...
Ino Hisamitsu * Table 2: Results of monitoring tests on mother material of Genkai-1 reactor pressure vessel (Continued from Nuke Info Tokyo No. 148) We must first understand the data on which this is...
Hiromitsu Ino * Outline of Neutron Irradiation Embrittlement in Aging Nuclear Power Plants Destruction of a reactor pressure vessel due to neutron irradiation embrittlement should be called an extreme severe accident. If the pressure...
– 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”...
Higashidori-1: application for extended operation cycle On October 15 Tohoku Electric Power Company announced that it planned to increase the length of continuous operation of its Higashidori-1 reactor (BWR, 1110 MW) from the current...
