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Onagawa Unit 2 Shut Down During Restart Due to Problems The Unit 2 reactor of Tohoku Electric Power Co.’s Onagawa Nuclear Power Station (BWR, 825 MW) was restarted on October 29 to resume...
Category: Reprocessing (Rokkasho, Tokai, etc)
Group Intro: Aomori Prefecture Citizens’ Association to Protect the Future from Nuclear Waste
By Ito Kazuko In December 1983, the prime minister at the time, Nakasone Yasuhiro, announced that the Shimokita Peninsula would become a nuclear power Mecca, and on April 9, 1985, the governor of...
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...
CNIC Statement: Incapable of seeing even a few months ahead, the Japan Nuclear Fuel Limited is not qualified to operate the Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant.
August 23, 2024 On August 23rd, the Japanese Nuclear Fuel Limited (JNFL) reported to Aomori Prefecture the postponement of the target for completion of the Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant, which had been set as the...
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Takahama Units 3, 4 to Operate Past 40 Years Takahama Nuclear Power Station Units 3 and 4 (PWR, 870 MW each), owned and operated by Kansai Electric Power Co. (Kanden), began operating in...
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Plutonium Recovered through Reprocessing of Fugen Fuel to be Transferred to Orano The Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA) reported to Japan’s Atomic Energy Commission (JAEC) on September 19 regarding its policy for utilizing plutonium...
Reference Material: Japan’s separated plutonium inventory (as of Dec. 31, 2022)
The plutonium management data as of the end of 2022 was notated in a very different way from previous years. Previously, the data was presented in detail for each facility and each process. This...
CNIC Statement: Stop reprocessing in France and get out of the nuclear fuel cycle
27 June 2023 On May 19, the Federation of Electric Power Companies of Japan (FEPC) announced its policy to reprocess spent MOX fuel in France, and on June 12, the Federation of Electric Power...
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GX Promotion Bill, GX Decarbonized Power Supply Bill Passed Two GX- (Green Transformation) related bills Japan’s government had submitted to the Diet overcame much opposition to be passed. The GX Promotion Act (Act for...
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Revisions to Basic Policy on High-level Radioactive Waste Disposal As noted in CNIC’s statement (cnic.jp/english/?p=6519), a ministerial meeting on final disposal of nuclear waste was held on February 10, proposals for revising the basic...
