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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...
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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...
Report on US Trip—America’s Uranium Development and Japan’s Uranium Garbage (Part 2)
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...
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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...
US Trip Diary—America’s Uranium Development and Japan’s Uranium Garbage (Part 1)
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...
Status of Safeguards for Japanese Plutonium Stored in the UK and France
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...
South Korea’s Climate Justice Movement Challenges Insidious Governance Strategy with Diverse Tactics
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...
TEPCO’s assessment of the planned radioactive contaminated water release into the Pacific Ocean
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...
