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Order to Halt Preparations for Kashiwazaki-Kariwa NPP Restart Japan’s Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) issued a corrective measures order on April 14th to Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO), prohibiting the transfer of nuclear fuel to...
Category: Radioactive Waste
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Five Former Prime Ministers Appeal for No Nukes On March 11, ten years to the day after the Fukushima nuclear accident, five former prime ministers of Japan appealed for abandonment of nuclear power. In...
Fukushima Daiichi: Contaminated water should not be dumped in the ocean and radioactive debris should not be removed without debate on the end state
By Ban Hideyuki, CNIC Co-Director Decommissioning work is underway at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station (below, FDNPS), with Fukushima Prefecture requesting that the site be rendered radiation-free vacant land 30 to 40 years...
Exportation of Radioactive Substances by the Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA)
By Tamayama Tomoyo (organic farmer, member of the Tamba-Sasayama City Nuclear Disaster Countermeasures Committee) The White Mesa Mill is the only uranium smeltery that is operating in the U.S. at present. Built at the...
METI and NUMO’s Fiasco
By Nishio Baku Mayor Kataoka Haruo of Suttsu Town, Hokkaido submitted paperwork as an application for a “literature review”—which constitutes the entryway for selection of sites for geological disposal of high-level radioactive wastes (HLW)—to...
Cultivation Trials Using Contaminated Soil with No Soil Cover
Demonstration project to compare cultivation with and without soil cover in Nagadoro District, Iitate Village By Kataoka Ryohei (CNIC) At Nagadoro District, Iitate Village, Fukushima Prefecture (a difficult-to-return zone), a demonstration project (previously reported...
Who’s Who: Kuse Shigetsugu “Strengthening local industry is the best way to keep nuclear dumps out”
By Tanaka Saneiki (Mr. Kuse’s son-in-law) and Yamaji Genta (head of the Toyotomi Town group to protect residents) In 1944, Kuse Shigetsugu was born in a family that ran a store in Tsuyama City,...
Open letter to Japanese ministers demanding a policy change from releasing contaminated water into the ocean to storing it on land.
On October 27 the Japanese government will make an official decision on allowing the release of over 1 million tons of contaminated water from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station into the Pacific Ocean....
CNIC Statement: The system for recruiting municipalities to host nuclear waste dumps must be comprehensively reviewed
Citizens’ Nuclear Information Center October 13, 2020 On October 9, Suttsu Town, Hokkaido and Kamoenai Village each officially decided to accept a ‘literature review,’ which is the first step in selecting geological disposal sites...
Did Two Hokkaido Municipalities Really Put their Names Forward for the High-Level Radioactive Waste Repository Selection Process? The True Nature of the “Literature Review”
By Nishio Baku, CNIC Co-Director In August, the mayor of Hokkaido’s Suttsu Town suggested that the town should consider applying for the “literature review” that is carried out in the run-up to the selection...