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Toshiba gambles on Westinghouse Nuke Info Tokyo No. 111
On February 6th Toshiba and BNFL agreed on the sale of Westinghouse to the former for $5.4 billion. Of this, Toshiba will pay 51-53%. Negotiations are proceeding to secure investment from other engineering firms,...
Chernobyl 20th Anniversary in Japan Nuke Info Tokyo No. 111
In September 2005 in Vienna the Chernobyl Forum released a report which estimated that around 4,000 people could have died or could die in the future as a result of exposure to radiation from...
Court rules in favor of plaintiffs Supports termination of operation of Shika-2 Nuke Info Tokyo No. 111
he Kanazawa District Court has upheld the plaintiffs’ suit for termination of operation of the Shika-2 reactor. The reasons for the verdict were that the design basis earthquake was too small, that the Ohchigata...
A mobile nuclear reactor comes to Tokyo Bay Nuke Info Tokyo No. 110
By Tsutomu Hirosawa* There is something I want people to understand first of all. That is that nuclear submarines frequently visit the US’s Yokosuka Naval Base. Last year nuclear submarines visited 17 times for...
South Korean nuclear waste dump vote Nuke Info Tokyo No. 109
In South Korea on November 2nd, regional voting was held on a final disposal site for low- and intermediate-level radioactive waste. I visited South Korea during the voting campaign to attend a citizens’ symposium...
Nuclear Energy is Not a Controllable Technology from Hiroshima and Nagasaki to the elimination of nuclear energy Nuke Info Tokyo No. 108
60th anniversary of the atomic bombing Two years after the bomb was dropped, Robert Oppenheimer, the father of the atomic bomb, said, “physicists have known sin and this is a knowledge which they cannot...
US company may take uranium-contaminated soil from Japan Nuke Info Tokyo No. 107
On June 12th the Japan Nuclear Cycle Development Institute (JNC) announced that it is considering sending 290 cubic meters of ‘uranium-contaminated soil’1 to the US. This ‘soil’ has been left abandoned near Ningyo Toge2, near...
No Nukes Asia Forum, Taiwan 2005 Nuke Info Tokyo No. 107
reconfirms declaration for nuclear phase-out and suspension of construction of Taiwan Nuclear Power Plant No. 4 The No Nukes Asia Forum (NNAF) was held from June 2nd to 8th in Taipei, Taiwan. There was...