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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...
Category: Safety
Ongoing scandals at TEPCO’s Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Station
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...
Fundamental Problems of TEPCO’s Evacuation Plan Revealed by Niigata Prefectural Committee
－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...
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,...
CNIC Statement: We strongly protest Kansai Electric Power’s restart of Mihama Unit 3
(Published in Japanese on June 23) This is the first time that a nuclear power plant that is over 40 years old will be restarted under the rules, implemented after the accident at TEPCO’s...
Judgement Handed down in Tokai Daini NPP Lawsuit: “It must not operate”
By Ban Hideyuki （CNIC Co-Director） The Mito District Court (Chief Judge Maeda Eiko) ruled on March 18 that “the nuclear reactor at the Tokai Daini (No. 2) Nuclear Power Station should not be operated.”...
CNIC Statement: We Protest the Granting of Consent to Operate the Aging Nuclear Power Plants, Takahama Unit 1 and Unit 2 and Mihama Unit 3, Beyond Their Lifespan of 40 Years
Citizens’ Nuclear Information Center (issued in Japanese on April 29, 2021) On April 28, Fukui Prefecture Governor Sugimoto Tatsuji gave his consent to the operation of Kansai Electric Power Company’s (Kanden’s) Takahama No. 1,...
CNIC Statement: “Nuclear Safety Culture” Exists Nowhere, Completely Superseded by Economic Egoism
— Our Response to the Recently Discovered Loss of Nuclear Material Protection Facility Functions at the TEPCO Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Station and the March 18 Court Decision Preventing JAPC from Restarting the Tokai Daini...
CNIC Statement: The national government should withdraw its appeal on the Ohi NPP ruling and accept the Osaka District Court’s decision
21 December 2020 On December 4, 2020, the Osaka District Court revoked the central government’s approval for the safety measures of Kansai Electric Power Company’s Ohi NPP No. 3 and No. 4 reactors. This...
Nuclear Power Simply Cannot be Relied on
By Baku Nishio (CNIC Co-Director) On November 3, 2020, Unit 4 of the Ohi Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) began a regular maintenance inspection, which meant that all four of Kansai Electric Power Company’s (Kanden’s)...
