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Spent MOX Fuel to be Sent to France for Reprocessing The Nuclear Reprocessing Organization of Japan (NuRO) and the Federation of Electric Power Companies announced on June 12 that plans for an experimental study...
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Construction Started on Facilities for Releasing ALPS Treated Water On September 4, Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) began constructing facilities for oceanic release of the contaminated water from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident that...
Fukushima Daiichi NPS Accident Compensation: Citizens are paying more while NPP operators have had their share reduced!
By Matsukubo Hajime (CNIC) Research by CNIC has discovered that the FY2021 share of the general contribution paid each year by the major power companies, including TEPCO, along with the Japan Atomic Power Company...
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NRA Gives Go-ahead for Oceanic Release of Water Contaminated from the Fukushima Nuclear Accident Japan’s Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) approved a draft judgement on May 19 validating the design of facilities for releasing into...
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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...
CNIC Statement: Shikoku Electric should seek a new direction by becoming a pioneer in nuclear plant decommissioning
Citizens’ Nuclear Information Center Statement, February 4, 2020 The Hiroshima High Court has issued a provisional injunction ordering Shikoku Electric Power Co. (SEPCO) to suspend operation of the Unit 3 nuclear reactor at its...
Imagining a nuclear-free society
Report on the 100th Public Seminar of the Citizens’ Nuclear Information Centre By Kataoka Ryohei CNIC’s 100th Public Seminar was held on June 23, 2019 at the Korean YMCA in Japan Asia Youth Center....
Toshiba’s Nuclear Ambitions Crumble — Collapse of the Toshiba-WEC Alliance
A major Japanese conglomerate with a corporate history of 142 years is on the verge of collapse. The main cause of this crisis is huge losses incurred by its U.S. nuclear subsidiary Westinghouse Electric...
Film Review: NUCLEAR JAPAN -4 years after/ Directed by Hiroyuki Kawai (NIT No. 172)
Hiroyuki Kawai is one of Japan’s top lawyers fighting legal actions against nuclear power. Apart from being a member of CNIC’s board of directors, he is the Co-Director of the National Network of Counsels...
A business analysis of Japan’s NPP export to Turkey Nuke Info Tokyo No. 161
Yasuro Kawai Leader of a plant engineers’ group monitoring the decommissioning process of nuclear power plants Anti-nuclear movement in Turkey, Photo by AntiNükleer Sinop Introduction The Japan-Turkey Agreement for Cooperation in the Use of...
