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(544 KB) Monju Restarted for the First Time in 14 Years Be they sodium leak detectors, radiation leak detectors, or temperature monitors, malfunction of the sensors that indicate that something is amiss has become...
(524 KB) High-Level Radioactive Waste Shipped from the UK The first shipment of high-level radioactive waste (HLW) from the UK arrived in Rokkasho Mutsu-Ogawara Port, Aomori Prefecture on March 9. For the sake of...
(1 MB) Monju Restart: Like Playing Russian Roulette Japan’s Monju Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor (FBR, 280MWe) is scheduled to restart by the end of the 2009 fiscal year (March 31, 2010). If it does...
(908 KB) 10.3 No Nukes Festa 2009 On October 3, about 7,000 people gathered in the rain in Tokyo for the first national gathering organized by the National Network Against Nuclear Energy since 2003...
(640 KB) KK-7 Stopped Due to Radioactive Leak, KK-6 Begins Start-up Tests Local groups demand that start-up tests be suspended until investigations into KK-7’s leaking fuel rod problem have been concluded and that both...
(552 KB) Certification of Sufferers of Atomic Bomb-Related Diseases Victorious lawsuits force government to review criteria. Multiple Myeloma and Malignant Lymphoma on Workers’ Compo List The list of recognized radiation-related conditions was established by...
(768 KB) Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Unit 7 Restarted It is the first reactor at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant to be restarted since 16 July 2007, when the plant was struck by the Chuetsu-oki Earthquake. Seismic...
(888 KB) Stop MOX Shipments! A shipment of MOX (mixed plutonium and uranium oxide) fuel bound for Japan left the port of Cherbourg in France on March 5. The ships will go around South...
(1 MB) The Future of Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Unit 7 The bureaucratic processes are in motion to restart Unit 7 of the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant. The Japanese fiscal year ends on March 31. We expect...
(760 KB) Fuel Loaded into Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Unit 7 All seven reactors of the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant have been closed since the July 2007 Chuetsu-Oki Earthquake, but Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) began loading...