Super-Safe Reactor? Nuke Info Tokyo No. 104
Toshiba hopes to install a 10 MWe sodium-cooled modular reactor in the town of Galena (population of about 700) on the Yukon River in Alaska. On 14 December 2004 the Galena City Council passed...
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International Critical Review on Japanese Long-Term Nuclear Program Interview with Hideaki Takemura Nuke Info Tokyo No. 105
Past issues of NIT have reported on the fact that our Co-Director, Hideyuki Ban, is a member of the Japanese Atomic Energy Commission’s (AEC) New Nuclear Policy-Planning Council. (Recently AEC determined the official English title. Previously we...
Nuclear Court Cases in Japan Nuke Info Tokyo No. 104
CNIC frequently refers to legal issues in its articles about the campaigns being waged against nuclear facilities in Japan. We thought readers might be interested in some background on the various legal challenges that...
Reactor pressure vessel exported to Taiwan Nuke Info Tokyo No. 101
On July 2nd a ship carrying a reactor pressure vessel left the Port of Yokohama in Kanagawa Prefecture for Taiwan. The pressure vessel is destined for use at the second reactor of Taiwan’s No....
To our friends in the anti-nuclear movement around the world Nuke Info Tokyo No. 100
Participants in International MOX Assessment Interim Report Public Meeting, Kyoto, October 1996 In October 1987 the first issue of Nuke Info Tokyo (10 pages) was sent to our friends around the world...
Is Japan qualified to undertake reprocessing in Rokkasho? Nuke Info Tokyo No. 99
On 11th February 2004 President Bush, in a speech delivered at the National Defense University, made the following comment: ‘The 40 nations of the Nuclear Suppliers Group should refuse to sell enrichment and reprocessing...