Category: Nuke Info Tokyo
(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...
(832 KB) Map of places mentioned in NIT 112 Shika-2 Verdict Demands Suspension of Operations Report on the Shika-2 verdict and the new draft earthquake design guidelines (Click here to read article) FBR Report...
(804 KB) Map of places mentioned in NIT 111 Rokkasho: active tests to begin any day Active tests at the Rokkasho reprocessing plant are expected to commence very soon. For the first time, plutonium...
(1 MB) Can safety be assured in the Monju modifications? It is doubtful that Monju’s reliability as a power-generating reactor can be proven, but even if it could be this would be of no...
(512 KB) Further delays at Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant JNFL has announced that active trials at the Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant will be delayed two months to February 2006. Start-up of Rokkasho will also be...
(684 KB) New Nuclear Policy-Planning Council The Atomic Energy Commission has released a draft Nuclear Energy Policy Outline. It is highly likely that the draft will be endorsed as official policy quite quickly....
(756 KB) Map of places mentioned in NIT 107 Back-sliding on Monju It could be said that whereas the Nagoya High Court followed the precautionary principle, the Supreme Court threw caution to the wind....
(720 KB) Map of places mentioned in NIT 106 Report on NPT Review Conference Japan’s inconsistency: calling for nuclear non-proliferation while extracting plutonium. (Click here to read article.) Pronounced aging of nuclear power plants There...