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Extract from article printed in Nuke Info Tokyo No.98 by Masako Sawai, CNIC (Nov,03-Feb04) Total cost of reprocessing 11 trillion yen In November the Federation of Electric Power Companies of Japan stated that total back-end costs amount...
DATE Operator Facility Name Type Short Description of Incidents Feb. 7 JNFL (Japan Nuclear Fuel Limited) Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant Reprocessing Plant Leak detected at fuel assembly transfer pit Feb. 12 Kansai-EPCO Takahama-1 Pressurized Water...
In July this year (2004) the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency (NISA) released figures relating to the radiation doses received by workers at Japanese nuclear facilities during the 2003 business year (April 2003 –...
Japan’s Plutonium Inventory for 2003 The government has provided information in various forms about Japan’s plutonium inventory for 2003. By following the links below readers should get the general picture, though the figures are...
In April the Ministry of Economy Trade and Industry’s Agency for Natural Resources and Energy announced the 2004(1) Electric Power Supply Plan (EPS Plan). This plan brings together the electric power demand estimates and...
This article considers costs associated with nuclear energy which were not included in an electricity generation cost comparison published in 2003 by the Agency for Natural Resources and Energy (ANRE). ANRE’s figures are shown...
Date Operator/ Owner Facility Name Type Short Description of Events Jan. 30 KEPCO Takahama 4 PWR Damage to steam generator tube found during periodic inspection. Mar. 4 TEPCO Kashiwazaki-Kariwa 1 BWR Reactor manually shut...
This article reports on the levels to which utility workers exposed from the replacement of reactor core shroud and recirculation system pipes based on the data that was made public by the request from...
Data: Japan’s Separated Plutonium Inventory Data compiled by CNIC Source: Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) Plutonium stock data of 2002 was officially released on September 2. According to the data,...
