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Spent MOX Fuel to be Sent to France for Reprocessing The Nuclear Reprocessing Organization of Japan (NuRO) and the Federation of Electric Power Companies announced on June 12 that plans for an experimental study...
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CNIC Statement: IAEA Report does not justify ocean discharge of contaminated water from Fukushima Daiichi
6 July 2023 On July 4, the IAEA submitted to Prime Minister Kishida a report stating that the discharge of contaminated water into the ocean from TEPCO’s Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station meets international...
CNIC Statement: Stop reprocessing in France and get out of the nuclear fuel cycle
27 June 2023 On May 19, the Federation of Electric Power Companies of Japan (FEPC) announced its policy to reprocess spent MOX fuel in France, and on June 12, the Federation of Electric Power...
CNIC Statement: Germany achieves nuclear power phase-out! A turning point in history
15 April 2023 On 15 April 2023, the Federal Republic of Germany finally achieved nuclear phase-out. This event marks the beginning of the end of the global nuclear age. It also gives courage to...
Stop the release of radioactive waste water from Fukushima Daiichi into the Pacific Ocean~ Voices from around the world
On 13 April 2021, the then Prime Minister of Japan, Suga Yoshihide, announced that his government had authorized the release into the Pacific Ocean of over one million tons of radioactive wastewater from the...
CNIC Statement: Safety of Nuclear Power is Under Threat One Year after the Attack on the Zaporizhzhia NPP
March 4, 2023 A year has already passed since the start of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022. An extremely severe humanitarian crisis is still ongoing. Russia should immediately withdraw from Ukraine....
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Injunction to Halt Mihama Unit 3 Operation Rejected Osaka District Court handed down a decision on December 20, 2022 rejecting a request for an injunction against operation of the Unit 3 reactor of the...
Notes on Participation in the Korea-Japan Nuclear Peace Pilgrimage
By Takano Satoshi (CNIC) The 2022 Korea-Japan Nuclear Peace Pilgrimage was held for four days in South Korea on August 28-31. This yearly endeavor, beginning the year after the Fukushima nuclear accident, is hosted...
Open Letter of Inquiry and Responses regarding Overseas Smelting of Japan’s Uranium Ore
By Matsukubo Hajime (CNIC) Plans for overseas smelting of a total of 125.6 tons of uranium ore with ion-exchange resin and other substances have been made by the Tono Geoscience Center and Ningyo-toge Environmental...
CNIC Statement: Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty-In Response to the Failure to Reach a Consensus at the 2022 Operational Review Conference
August 30, 2022 On August 26, the Russian government opposed the adoption of the draft final document at the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty (NPT) Operational Review Conference held at UN Headquarters in New York, resulting...