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In 1979, Ryusuke Umeda was engaged in periodic inspections of the Shimane-1 and Tsuruga-1 nuclear power plants and suffered a myocardial infarction in March 2000. He filed an application for workers’ compensation with the...
The Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station accident released radioactive substances across a wide area of the environment. Currently, not only decontamination operations but also people’s everyday lives generate wastes that include high concentrations of...
Introduction Work-related fatalities and injuries have been occurring at Tokyo Electric Power Company’s (TEPCO) Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station (FDNPS) frequently since 2014. The total number of such accidents in FY2014, ending in March...
Three years and eight months have passed since the outbreak of the nuclear crisis in Fukushima, yet the situation at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station (NPS) is nowhere near completion of the...
SELENGE Lkhagvajav Head of the national movement “For a Nuclear Safe Mongolia” 1. Overall background Mongolia is located between Russia and China, two large powers. The territory of Mongolia is 1.5 million km2 and...
The struggle with contaminated water (Photo by TEPCO) The Battle to Contain Contaminated Water The Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station (FDNPS) has serious water contamination problems. Water injected to cool the nuclear fuel has...
Screening of “Nuclear Savage – The Islands of Secret Project 4.1” The 2014 World Conference against A & H bombs was held in Hiroshima on August 4-6, and in Nagasaki, on August 7-9,...
Tetsuji Imanaka Research Reactor Institute, Kyoto University As we reported in the March/April 2013 issue of Nuke Info Tokyo (No. 153), we started on a project entitled “Assessment of the Initial Radiation Exposure to...
Nasubi Radiation-exposed Workers’ Solidarity Network Website: www.hibakurodo.net / e-mail: info@hibakurodo.net Spring labor offensive for nuclear workers in front of Maeda Corp (Tokyo). (Photo by Akira Imai) 1. Inauguration and Startup of Radiation-exposed Workers’ Solidarity...
The Fukushima nuclear disaster caused radioactive substances to be spread widely throughout the environment, and many foods were contaminated with radioactivity. Currently, even though three years have passed since the accident, the mechanisms of...
