Citizens' Nuclear Information Center
Create No Nukes World With Us
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,...
By Yamaguchi Yukio (CNIC Co-Director) Is safe management and operation of nuclear power plants possible? 10 years have passed since the severe accident at Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s (TEPCO) Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Station...
Five Former Prime Ministers Appeal for No Nukes On March 11, ten years to the day after the Fukushima nuclear accident, five former prime ministers of Japan appealed for abandonment of nuclear power. In...
— Our Response to the Recently Discovered Loss of Nuclear Material Protection Facility Functions at the TEPCO Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Station and the March 18 Court Decision Preventing JAPC from Restarting the Tokai Daini...
21 December 2020 On December 4, 2020, the Osaka District Court revoked the central government’s approval for the safety measures of Kansai Electric Power Company’s Ohi NPP No. 3 and No. 4 reactors. This...
By Baku Nishio (CNIC Co-Director) On November 3, 2020, Unit 4 of the Ohi Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) began a regular maintenance inspection, which meant that all four of Kansai Electric Power Company’s (Kanden’s)...
First NPP Equipped with Anti-terrorism Safety Measures Begins Operating Kyushu Electric Power Co. started up Unit 1 at its Sendai Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) on November 17. This is the first NPP in Japan...