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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...
CNIC has compiled a list of accidents and breakdowns occurring at nuclear power plants and nuclear fuel-related facilities in FY2017 (April 1, 2017 to March 31, 2018) from the following four sources.(1) Reports based...
State of the PlantFrom the water temperature in the containment vessels and the spent fuel pools (SFPs), and from the state of releases of Xenon-135, released when uranium fuel undergoes fission, and other measurements,...
The Secretariat of the Nuclear Regulation Authority released the FY 2016 Report on radiation management in nuclear facilities on 4 October 2017 (www.nsr.go.jp/data/000203487.pdf). The following data was compiled from the section on “Management of...
On August 1 2017, Japan’s Nuclear Safety Commission released data on plutonium storage conditions as of the end of 2016. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) revised its evaluation methods for unirradiated plutonium in...