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by Kamisawa Chihiro, CNIC staff More than one hundred meetings to discuss compliance of the Rokkasho Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing Facility with the new regulatory standards have now been held since they began on January...
Tokai No. 2 Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) is a Boiling Water Reactor (BWR), the same as the reactors which melted down at Fukushima Daiichi NPS. Its containment vessel is also Mark II type. Tokai...
Safety Regulation Violations Continue to OccurThe regular meeting of the Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) on October 11, 2017 indicated multiple safety code violations by Japan Nuclear Fuel, Limited (JNFL), operator of the Rokkasho Reprocessing...
Japan’s Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) finalized the draft of its inspection documents regarding the Application Form for Approval of Changes to Nuclear Facilities for Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s (TEPCO’s) Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Station (below,...
Lifting of evacuation orders means an end to compensation payments for evacuees After the Fukushima nuclear accident, some 160,000 people were forced to leave their hometowns and evacuate the region. Even now, some 100,000...
Worldwide there are currently 442 nuclear reactors operating in 30 countries. While other countries have no intention of competing with each other in this field, Japan’s government stands apart by declaring its regulatory standards...
On August 11, 2015, Kyushu Electric Power Company activated Sendai Nuclear Power Station Unit 1 (PWR, 890 MW, located in Satsumasendai City, Kagoshima Prefecture, commissioned in June 1984), and the reactor began power generation...
written by Hiromitsu INO Nuclear Power Plant Ageing Problem Research Group, Professor Emeritus of the University of Tokyo On April 30, 2015, Kansai Electric Power Company (KEPCO) applied to the Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) for...
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...
