Fukushima and the ‘Recovery Olympics’
by Caitlin Stronell (CNIC) The Japanese government’s so-called ‘Recovery Olympics’ are looking sicker by the day. Even PM Abe has finally begun to hint that the Olympics may not be able to go ahead...
Category: Radiation Exposure
Group Intro: Everyone’s Data Site
Collective Database of Citizens’ Radioactivity Measuring Labs by Nakamura Nahoko, Secretariat, Everyone’s Data Site Compiling the radioactivity data measured by citizens’ labs throughout Japan, Everyone’s Data Site allows users to...
Report on Environmental Radiation Dose Rate Measurements in Fukushima area
by Ban Hideyuki, CNIC Co-Director On May 11, 2011, the author set out to investigate radiation dose rates in the environment. At that time, we had chosen to conduct an investigation starting from the...
Foreign workers in Japanese nuclear power plants?
Report of CNIC Seminar By Kataoka Ryohei A seminar titled “Foreign workers and work in radioactive environments” was held in the Japanese Trade Union Confederation (RENGO)’s Headquarters in Tokyo on May 27, 2019. The...
Recognition of Exposed Workers in Japan and France: A report on an international survey and participation in the World Social Forum
Recognition of Workers’ Compensation Claims of Nuclear Power Plant Workers in Japan and the Beginning of an International Comparative SurveyThe number of workers registered under the Exposure Dose Registration and Management System up to...
Disturbing Plutonium Exposure Accident
Plutonium Dust Release at Japan Atomic Energy Agency’s Oarai Research and Development Center Fuel Research Building At around 11:15 on June 6, 2017, a plutonium release and exposure accident occurred in an analytical lab...
Ex-nuclear worker suffering from leukemia files lawsuit for industrial accident compensation
Developments up to the trialIn 2011, a 42-year-old welder from Fukuoka Prefecture nicknamed “Arakabu-san”1 went to Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station (FDNPS) with an ardent desire to help the people in the disaster-hit...
3/11 Fund for Children with Thyroid Cancer launched
Purpose of the 3/11 Fund for Children with Thyroid Cancer It is well known that a great amount of radioactive material was emitted from Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station after...
Fukushima Evacuees abandoned by the government
Lifting of evacuation orders means an end to compensation payments for evacuees After the Fukushima nuclear accident, some 160,000 people were forced to leave their hometowns and evacuate the region. Even now, some 100,000...
Recycling 8,000-Bq/kg decontamination-generated soil wastes should not be permitted
Soil and other wastes resulting from decontamination in Fukushima Prefecture are estimated to amount to a maximum of 22 million cubic meters (as of January 2015). The Japanese Ministry of the Environment (MOE) plans...