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28 February 2023 Today the Kishida Cabinet made a cabinet decision to proceed with a bundle of bills (the GX Decarbonization Power Supply Bill), including legislation to extend the operational periods of nuclear power...
~ Reactor manufacturers’ advanced pressurized water reactor farce is exposed: By Goto Masashi, former Toshiba nuclear engineer 1. Post-Fukushima nuclear accident nuclear power plant (NPP) restarts sluggish Today, nearly 12 years after the reactor...
By Yamaguchi Yukio (CNIC Co-Director) Are we going to take the road to GX? New Year greetings to all Nuke Info Tokyo readers! Japan’s nuclear power policy is now in the process of a...
NRA Complicit in Abolishing NPP Operation Period Limits After hearing Director General Matsuyama Yasuhiro of the Energy Conservation and Renewable Energy Department (Agency for Natural Resources and Energy of the Ministry of Economy, Trade...
November 15, 2022 The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI), at the 33rd Meeting of the Nuclear Energy Subcommittee of the Advisory Committee for Natural Resources and Energy on November 8, presented the...
11 October 2022 On October 5, at a regular meeting of the Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA), Chairman Yamanaka responded to the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) proposal to eliminate the rule stipulated...
NRA Gives Go-ahead for Oceanic Release of Water Contaminated from the Fukushima Nuclear Accident Japan’s Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) approved a draft judgement on May 19 validating the design of facilities for releasing into...
TEPCO’s long history of safety mismanagement and Niigata Prefecture’s investigative committees By Yamaguchi Yukio (CNIC Co-Director) Tokyo Electric Power Company HD, the largest electric power company in Japan, has ten nuclear power reactors...
－Reliable information from nuclear-plant operators is essential for emergency evacuation of local residents－ By Sasaki Hiroshi (Vice Chairman of the Niigata Prefectural Committee Investigating Evacuation Methods in a Nuclear Disaster） According to the International...
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,...