Nuke Info Tokyo No. 117 (March/April 2007)
(700 KB) Step 3 of Active Tests Begins at Rokkasho On January 31st JNFL President, Isami Kojima, announced that the active tests would not be completed until October, meaning that the start of full...
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Nuke Info Tokyo No. 116 (Jan./Feb. 2007)
(1 MB) Reorganization of Japanese Nuclear Industry Future generations will probably conclude that the industry should have contracted gracefully when it had the chance. Japanese Nuclear Industry Eyes New Nuclear Power Plants in Asia...
Nuke Info Tokyo No. 115 (Nov./Dec. 2006)
(764 KB) Map of places mentioned in NIT 115 Aging Reactors: Symposium in South Korea Symposium in Busan, South Korea, concerning the life extension of Kori-1 nuclear power plant The Deepening Puzzle of Steel...
Nuke Info Tokyo No. 114 (Sep./Oct. 2006)
(820 KB) Map of places mentioned in NIT 114 Irradiated Research Reactor Fuel Shipped to US On August 4th, two spent fuel assemblies were shipped from Kawasaki to DoE’s Idaho National Laboratory.Nuclear Energy Nation...
Nuke Info Tokyo No. 113 (July/August 2006)
(580 KB) Map of places mentioned in NIT 113 Active Tests at the Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant Internal exposure to plutonium was one major issue to arise during Step 1 of the hot tests. Already...
Nuke Info Tokyo No. 112 (May/June 2006)
(832 KB) Map of places mentioned in NIT 112 Shika-2 Verdict Demands Suspension of Operations Report on the Shika-2 verdict and the new draft earthquake design guidelines (Click here to read article) FBR Report...
Nuke Info Tokyo No. 111 (March/April 2006)
(804 KB) Map of places mentioned in NIT 111 Rokkasho: active tests to begin any day Active tests at the Rokkasho reprocessing plant are expected to commence very soon. For the first time, plutonium...
Nuke Info Tokyo No. 110 (Jan./Feb. 2006)
(1 MB) Can safety be assured in the Monju modifications? It is doubtful that Monju’s reliability as a power-generating reactor can be proven, but even if it could be this would be of no...
Nuke Info Tokyo No. 109 (Nov./Dec. 2005)
(512 KB) Further delays at Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant JNFL has announced that active trials at the Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant will be delayed two months to February 2006. Start-up of Rokkasho will also be...
Nuke Info Tokyo No. 108 (Sep./Oct. 2005)
(684 KB) New Nuclear Policy-Planning Council The Atomic Energy Commission has released a draft Nuclear Energy Policy Outline. It is highly likely that the draft will be endorsed as official policy quite quickly....