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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 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
In October 2015, the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare (MHLW) made public its standard for certifying a worker with leukemia as having suffered an industrial accident and being entitled to worker-compensation benefits. The...
A symposium on “The current situation of exposed nuclear plant workers in France, Ukraine, South Korea and Japan” was held on March 27, followed by an “International solidarity symposium for seeking the rights of...
1) After 5 years, still very little is known about the causes and effects of the Fukushima nuclear disaster A whole five years will soon have passed since the severe accident occurred at...