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....
Category: Nuclear Industry
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...
Report from Turkey Sinop Says No to Nuclear Nuke Info Tokyo No. 159
Özgür Gürbüz, Anti Nuclear Platform* Rally against nuclear power in Sinop INTRODUCTION The idea of building a nuclear power plant in Turkey was first put forward about 60 years ago. Akkuyu in Mersin Province...
The Current State of Japan’s Nuclear Power Plant Export Plans Nuke Info Tokyo No. 159
With no prospects for the new construction of nuclear reactors inside Japan, Japanese nuclear reactor makers have turned their eyes overseas in search of a means of survival. This article overviews the current state...
The Koodankulam Struggle Nuke Info Tokyo No. 149
S. P. Udayakumar Ph.D. * Photo of Mr. S. P. Udayakumar We have been fighting against the Koodankulam Nuclear power Project (KKNPP) since the late 1980s. This Russian project was shelved right after the...
Toshiba-Tenex Enriched Uranium Joint Venture: Japan-Russia Bilateral Nuclear Cooperation Agreement Nuke Info Tokyo No. 141
On February 9 Toshiba announced that it had agreed to start discussions on establishing a joint venture for enriched uranium sales with Russian company Tenex. Tenex (Techsnabexport) is a subsidiary of Russia’s Atomenergoprom (AEP),...
South Texas Project Nuclear Power Plant: International Letter and Petition to Japanese Government Nuke Info Tokyo No. 141
In The Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC) posted a notice on its web site on January 7 saying that it had officially commenced the environmental and social screening process for two new nuclear...
Nuclear State and Industry: Bottomless Depths of Corruption Nuke Info Tokyo 118
As reported in NIT 117, a web of falsification and deception in Japan’s electric power industry was uncovered late in 2006. On 30 March 2007, all 12 power companies submitted reports to the government....