Ban-san’s News Summary
CNIC’s Co-Director Ban Hideyuki posts a video on YouTube once a month where he discusses recent articles from Japanese newspapers. This is an English summary of the issues he discussed in the April post....
Category: Radioactive Waste
New Moves Emerging on Disposal of Disused Equipment from Decommissioned Nuclear Power Plants
By Sueda Kazuhide (Kansai Campaign Against Nuclear Waste) With the arrival of the age of decommissioning of Japanese nuclear power plants (NPPs), an increasing number of nuclear plant operators have launched dismantling and disposal...
TEPCO’s assessment of the planned radioactive contaminated water release into the Pacific Ocean
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...
Symposium on Final Disposal of Specific Radioactive Waste held in Iwanai Town, Hokkaido
By Hideyuki Ban (CNIC Co-Director) More than a year has passed since the literature reviews began in October 2020 in Suttsu Town and Kamoenai Village, both in the Shiribeshi District of Hokkaido. The literature...
Benches Made from NPP Radioactive Waste Installed in High Schools: Power Companies Promote Popular Understanding of “Clearance”
By Nishio Baku (CNIC Co-Director) There is a system in place to make it easier for electric power utilities to dispose of low-level radioactive waste from their nuclear power plants (NPPs). In this system,...
Series of Ordinances Rejecting Nuclear Waste in Communities around Suttsu Town and Kamoenai Village, Hokkaido
By Ban Hideyuki (CNIC Co-Director) A literature review has been initiated for Suttsu Town and Kamoenai Village in Hokkaido, which is the first stage in the process to host a high-level radioactive waste repository....
News Watch
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...
News Watch
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...