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Five Former Prime Ministers Appeal for No Nukes On March 11, ten years to the day after the Fukushima nuclear accident, five former prime ministers of Japan appealed for abandonment of nuclear power. In...
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Court Overturns Reactor Installation Permit for Ohi Units No. 3 and 4 On December 4, 2020, the Osaka District Court overturned the approval the governmental Nuclear Regulation Authority had granted to Kansai Electric Power...
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Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant Completion Delayed by a Year Japan Nuclear Fuel Limited notified the Nuclear Regulation Agency (NRA) of Japan on August 21 that its scheduled date for completion of work on the Rokkasho...
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Serious Consideration of Overseas Treatment of Radioactive Wastes The Denki Shinbun energy and electricity industry newspaper reported on July 9th that the Agency of Natural Resources and Energy, under Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade...
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New Inspection System for NPPs Launched The nuclear power plant (NPP) inspection system that has been managed by Japan’s Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) and its secretariat was changed dramatically on April 1 to emphasize...
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Evacuation orders lifted for parts of the long-term evacuation zones Though nine years have passed since the Fukushima nuclear accident, the zones designated as “Difficult-to-return-zones” still exist in seven municipalities, covering a total of...
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Temporary Injunction against Resumed Operation of Ikata Unit 3 Reactor The Hiroshima High Court issued a provisional decision on January 17 forbidding operation of the Unit 3 reactor at Shikoku Electric Power Company’s Ikata...
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TEPCO and Others Financially Aiding Japan Atomic Power Co. Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings (TEPCO) and Tohoku Electric Power Co. have decided to provide new aid on top of that which they have provided...
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Sep/Oct 2019 4th Reshuffled Abe Cabinet Inaugurated The fourth reshuffled cabinet of Prime Minister Abe Shinzo’s administration was inaugurated on September 11. Koizumi Shinjiro was appointed Environment Minister and Minister of State for Nuclear...
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International Round Table on final Disposal of HLW Participants of the G20 Ministerial Meeting on Energy Transitions and Global Environment for Sustainable Growth, held in Karuizawa, Nagano Prefecture on June 15-16, agreed to set...
