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Recently, the contaminated soil recycling demonstration project in Harase district, Nihonmatsu City, was cancelled due to local opposition. There are still two demonstration projects being implemented in Fukushima Prefecture, one in Minamisoma City and...
cnic.jp/english/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/kagakutekitokuseimap_01-2M.jpg Will the map push the HLW disposal site selection process forward? On July 28, 2017, the Japanese government released a geoscientific characteristics map to provide a basis for selecting locations for high-level nuclear-waste...
Report on two lectures by Prof. Frank von Hippel Prof. Frank von Hippel, from Princeton University’s Program on Science and Global Security, gave talks in Tokyo on ‘Monju and Japan’s reprocessing policy’ and ‘Reducing...
Soil and other wastes resulting from decontamination in Fukushima Prefecture are estimated to amount to a maximum of 22 million cubic meters (as of January 2015). The Japanese Ministry of the Environment (MOE) plans...
1) After 5 years, still very little is known about the causes and effects of the Fukushima nuclear disaster A whole five years will soon have passed since the severe accident occurred at...
Selection of disposal sites for radioactive materials from the Fukushima nuclear plant and designation of some areas as candidate sites should be retracted By Kazuhide Sueda Radioactive substances dispersed during the 2011 Fukushima nuclear...
The Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station accident released radioactive substances across a wide area of the environment. Currently, not only decontamination operations but also people’s everyday lives generate wastes that include high concentrations of...
The Japanese government’s Radioactive Wastes Subcommittee, reestablished in May 2013, comprised of different members from those in the subcommittee under the Electricity and Gas Industry Committee of the Advisory Committee for Natural Resources and...
The working group on nuclear wastes, organized under the nuclear energy subcommittee of the electric power industry committee of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry’s Advisory Committee on Natural Resources and Energy, restarted...
What is the cause of this and how should Japan respond? On Aug. 3, 2011, 76 canisters of vitrified high-level waste (HLW) were shipped from Sellafield in Britain, arriving at the port of Mutsu-Ogawara,...
