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By Ban Hideyuki, CNIC Co-Director The Atomic Energy Commission released the official report on Japan’s plutonium holdings as of the end of 2019. Significant changes included the amount of plutonium stored at reactors in...
Our bi-annual summary of nuclear facilities in the East Asia region. Compared to the previous one, Japan’s nuclear fleet is definitely dwindling as permanent shutdowns continue. The same is true of Korea and Taiwan....
Fukushima Prefecture has been implementing thyroid gland examinations for children (born between April 2, 1992 and April 1, 2012) who were living in the prefecture at the time of the earthquake and nuclear disaster....
by Nishio Baku, CNIC Co-Director The Nuclear Regulation Authority decided at a meeting on 27 February 2019 that the ‘Report on radiation management in nuclear facilities’ which they had released annually up until last...
Selected accidents at nuclear facilities in Japan in 2018: cnic.jp/english/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/DATA-NPP-Accident-List-2018.pdf
by Ban Hideyuki (CNIC Co Director) The 2018 official report on Japan’s stockpile of extracted plutonium revealed that the amount of such plutonium stored at the Japan Nuclear Fuel Ltd. (JNFL) Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant...
The Nuclear Regulation Authority released the FY 2017 ‘Report on radiation management in nuclear facilities’ on 17 October 2018 (www.nsr.go.jp/data/000249314.pdf) This data was compiled from the section on ‘Management of radioactive waste and exposure...
On July 31, 2018, the Atomic Energy Commission published a report on management of the plutonium stockpiles held by Japan as of the end of 2017. Japan’s stockpiles of separated plutonium stored in...
On April 5, 2018, the government’s Nuclear Damage Compensation Dispute Resolution Center notified residents of Namie Town, Fukushima Prefecture, and TEPCO of its decision to discontinue its efforts to achieve an Alternate Dispute Resolution...