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Citizens’ Nuclear Information Center 2 June 2022 On May 31, Sapporo District Court (Presiding Judge Taniguchi Tetsuya) handed down a verdict suspending the operation of Tomari Nuclear Power Plant. The reason given for the...
By Ido Ken’ichi (Attorney) A group of six young people currently aged 17 to 27, who had been living in Fukushima Prefecture at the time of the Fukushima nuclear accident (then 6 to...
By Matsukubo Hajime (CNIC) For many years, Japan has commissioned the reprocessing of spent fuel to the United Kingdom and France (Table 1). The reprocessing itself of the commissioned spent fuel has already been...
‘311 Children’s Thyroid Cancer Suit’ Filed Six people stricken with thyroid cancer as a result of exposure to radiation from the Fukushima nuclear accident filed suit against Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) in Tokyo...
By Takano Satoshi, Ph.D. Candidate, Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Seoul National University The Moon Jae-in administration, by encouraging public debate on nuclear power policy in 2017, has reached a decision on a “nuclear...
Presentation by Shaun Burnie, Senior Nuclear Specialist, Greenpeace East Asia On 18 November 2021, TEPCO published its draft assessment on the radiological impact of their planned discharges of radioactive waste water presently stored at...
By Matsukubo Hajime (CNIC) The U.S. Biden Administration is currently working on the Nuclear Posture Review (NPR). This work commenced in early July and is expected to be completed in early 2022. NPR signifies...
Mayor Who Approves of High-Level Waste Disposal Site Elected in Suttsu Town Race A mayoral election was held on October 20 in Suttsu Town, Hokkaido, along with a by-election for a town council member...
By Kataoka Ryohei (CNIC) The United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation (UNSCEAR) 1) released its report, Levels and Effects of Radiation Exposure due to the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi...
By Minami Takuto (Kajiwara & Minami Law Firm), Head of Bikini Disaster Litigation Team The Buried and Forgotten ‘Bikini Incident’ In 1954, the USA conducted six thermonuclear tests (commonly known as the “Operation Castle,”...
