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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...
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...
By Matsukubo Hajime (CNIC) (See Part 1 at cnic.jp/english/?p=6119) April 3, To the Former Mill Grounds of Mexican Hat After leaving Moab, we headed south in earnest, staying the night in a small...
Japan’s Plutonium to be Handed over to France!? The Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA) signed a basic framework agreement with the French company Orano’s recycling subsidiary on March 30 regarding the transport and recycling...
By Matsukubo Hajime (CNIC) The Japan Atomic Energy Agency’s (JAEA’s) Tono Geoscience Center (in Gifu Prefecture) and Ningyotoge Environmental Engineering Center (on the border of Okayama and Tottori prefectures) store uranium ore and related...
By Matsukubo Hajime (CNIC) For many years, Japan has commissioned the reprocessing of spent fuel to the United Kingdom and France (Table 1). The reprocessing itself of the commissioned spent fuel has already been...
By Takano Satoshi, Ph.D. Candidate, Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Seoul National University The Moon Jae-in administration, by encouraging public debate on nuclear power policy in 2017, has reached a decision on a “nuclear...
Presentation by Shaun Burnie, Senior Nuclear Specialist, Greenpeace East Asia On 18 November 2021, TEPCO published its draft assessment on the radiological impact of their planned discharges of radioactive waste water presently stored at...
By Kataoka Ryohei (CNIC) The United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation (UNSCEAR) 1) released its report, Levels and Effects of Radiation Exposure due to the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi...
By Minami Takuto (Kajiwara & Minami Law Firm), Head of Bikini Disaster Litigation Team The Buried and Forgotten ‘Bikini Incident’ In 1954, the USA conducted six thermonuclear tests (commonly known as the “Operation Castle,”...