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by Miwako Ogiso (Head of the Office for the Accusers Group in the Monju Court Case) METI’s appeal to the Supreme Court Concerning the Monju Fast Breeder Reactor, built by the Japan Nuclear Cycle...
1. Introduction Even now, the level of public awareness in Japan of ‘nuclear fusion energy’ is very low. However the government and people in the field are continuing their steady behind-the-scenes moves to make...
The fact is that a power failure can occur at any time. Strangely enough, the power failure that occurred on August 14 throughout the east of Canada and the United States, represented about the...
The Mito District Court (15km from JCO in Tokaimura) where the ruling on JCO was delivered. On the morning of March 3, the Mito District court delivered a ruling on JCO Co. (JCO),...
by Yuichi Kaido (lawyer) Nuclear peril in Far East Asia The North Korean government officially admitted to Washington on October 17th last year that it was developing a plan to enrich uranium for the...
the ground-breaking ruling on the Monju fast breeder reactor Picture: Plaintiffs’ lawyer holds up the High Court ruling which says “perfect victory” with a look of joy on his face and others congratulate major...
Core Shroud Design Characteristics The core shroud in a BWR is a huge stainless steel cylindrical component within the reactor pressure vessel (RPV) that surrounds the fuel assemblies. The core shroud acts as a...
Imanaka T., ed. 2001. “Recent Research Activities about the Chernobyl NPP Accident in Belarus, Ukraine and Russia.” Research Reactor Institute, Kyoto University. KURRI-KR-79 (ISSN 1342-0852) Sixteen years have passed since the accident at Chernobyl nuclear power...
Picture: Memorial photograph of symposium participants I had an opportunity to attend an international symposium entitled the ’14th International Summer Symposium on Science and the World Affairs,’ which was held at the University...
Introduction and Nuclear Energy History in Switzerland On April 26 and 27, commemorating the 17 years that have passed since the Chernobyl accident, an international conference called ‘Rethinking Nuclear Energy and Democracy after 9/11’...