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Kanden Resumes On-site Survey for Expansion of Mihama Nuke Kansai Electric Power Co. (Kanden) announced on July 22 that it would resume its geological survey for siting a new reactor at its Mihama Nuclear...
Category: Radioactive Waste
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Strategic Energy Plan and Other Cabinet Decisions Japan’s government adopted the 7th Strategic Energy Plan on February 18 together with the GX2040 Vision and Plan for Global Warming Countermeasures in cabinet decisions. “GX”...
Comments on the Remarks Made by METI and NUMO at the Interactive Briefing on January 23
January 30, 2025 On January 23, 2025 (Thu), the Nuclear Waste Management Organization of Japan (NUMO), the operator of the geological disposal of high-level radioactive waste, held a national interactive briefing in Chuo-ku,...
NUMO’s Problem-loaded Literature Survey Reports
By Takano Satoshi ・NUMO submitted its literature survey reports on November 22. Public inspection and hearings were held until February 19. ・Doubts about completion of the report while ignoring the results of the dating of...
Subcommittee on Specified Radioactive Waste Reports Nos. 9 & 10 – Discussions End on the Draft Literature Survey Report and the Review of the Communication Gatherings
By Takano Satoshi (CNIC) The 4th and 5th meetings of the Specified Radioactive Waste Subcommittee were held on June 17 and August 1, respectively. The discussions on the draft literature survey report and the...
Is it Possible for Citizens to Engage in Dialog with the Ministry of the Environment as it Promotes the Recycling of Soil Contaminated by Radioactivity
By Yumiko Fuseya, NPO Shinjuku Yoyogi Citizen Monitoring Center, Citizens Against Dissemination of Radioactivity What is the recycling of removed soil? I would like first to introduce myself. I am Fuseya Yumiko from the...
CNIC Statement: NUMO Should Resubmit its Report on the Literature Survey
November 26, 2024 On November 22, the Nuclear Waste Management Organization of Japan (NUMO) submitted its report on the literature survey, the first phase of the survey for the construction of a final disposal...
We will not Allow the Shimokita Peninsula to Become a Nuclear Waste Dump Yard!
By Komura Kazuo (Former Aomori Prefectural Assembly Member, Co-Director of the Aomori Prefecture Citizens’ Association to Protect the Future from Nuclear Waste) On July 27, 1984, the Federation of Electric Power Companies of...
Subcommittee on Specified Radioactive Waste, Report No.8: What the Summary on the ‘Communication Gathering’ is Really About
By Takano Satoshi The Subcommittee on Specified Radioactive Waste (below, “the Subcommittee”) held its third meeting on April 30. I would like to focus on the interim report, which sums up the “Communication...
CNIC Statement: Overseas Export of Radioactive Waste is Unacceptable – Uranium Waste from Japanese Nuclear Research and Development has been exported to a facility adjacent to indigenous sacred sites in Utah, USA –
June 24, 2024 Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA) has been proceeding with its plan to export about 136 tons of uranium ore and ion-exchange resin with absorbed uranium, which had been stored at...
