Category: Nuke Info Tokyo
(1.1 MB) Extension of Time Allowed Between Periodic Inspections of Reactors People wonder why now of all times, when problems of safety and quality control have arisen, should the time between periodic inspections be...
(708 KB) Hamaoka Verdict: Passing Judgment on the Judge After the Hamaoka hearings ended, the Chuetsu-Oki Earthquake gave us a preview of the type of problems which might arise in the much larger earthquake...
(504 KB) Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Earthquake: Lessons from the Chuetsu-Oki Earthquake Summary of a conversation between CNIC’s Baku Nishio and Chihiro Kamisawa IAEA Releases Report on Kashiwazaki-Kariwa There were some misleading comments in the IAEA’s August...
(992 KB) Indonesian Anti-Nuclear Activists Visit Japan/Korea Two Indonesians opposed to their government’s plan to introduce nuclear power visited Japan from July 3-9. From Japan, they continued on to South Korea. Japan’s Nuclear Earthquake...
(748 KB) NPT PrepCom and the US-India Nuclear Deal The Abolition 2000 AGM approved a statement to be handed to diplomats recommending that they challenge the US to show how the US-India nuclear deal...
(700 KB) Step 3 of Active Tests Begins at Rokkasho On January 31st JNFL President, Isami Kojima, announced that the active tests would not be completed until October, meaning that the start of full...
(1 MB) Reorganization of Japanese Nuclear Industry Future generations will probably conclude that the industry should have contracted gracefully when it had the chance. Japanese Nuclear Industry Eyes New Nuclear Power Plants in Asia...
(764 KB) Map of places mentioned in NIT 115 Aging Reactors: Symposium in South Korea Symposium in Busan, South Korea, concerning the life extension of Kori-1 nuclear power plant The Deepening Puzzle of Steel...
(820 KB) Map of places mentioned in NIT 114 Irradiated Research Reactor Fuel Shipped to US On August 4th, two spent fuel assemblies were shipped from Kawasaki to DoE’s Idaho National Laboratory.Nuclear Energy Nation...
(580 KB) Map of places mentioned in NIT 113 Active Tests at the Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant Internal exposure to plutonium was one major issue to arise during Step 1 of the hot tests. Already...