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New Inspection System for NPPs Launched The nuclear power plant (NPP) inspection system that has been managed by Japan’s Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) and its secretariat was changed dramatically on April 1 to emphasize...
Category: Economics of nuclear power
CNIC Statement: Shikoku Electric should seek a new direction by becoming a pioneer in nuclear plant decommissioning
Citizens’ Nuclear Information Center Statement, February 4, 2020 The Hiroshima High Court has issued a provisional injunction ordering Shikoku Electric Power Co. (SEPCO) to suspend operation of the Unit 3 nuclear reactor at its...
Nuclear Mafia Exposed in Kansai Electric Power Co. (Kanden) Scandal ~ METI pleads ignorance of bribes and kickbacks driving the nuclear industry
by Ban Hideyuki, CNIC Co-Director Kansai Electric Power Co. (Kanden) has disclosed that 20 officials, mainly in its nuclear power division, received money and gifts worth more than 300 million yen from Moriyama Eiji,...
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TEPCO and Others Financially Aiding Japan Atomic Power Co. Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings (TEPCO) and Tohoku Electric Power Co. have decided to provide new aid on top of that which they have provided...
Imagining a nuclear-free society
Report on the 100th Public Seminar of the Citizens’ Nuclear Information Centre By Kataoka Ryohei CNIC’s 100th Public Seminar was held on June 23, 2019 at the Korean YMCA in Japan Asia Youth Center....
The Capacity Market: An overview and issues
By Matsukubo Hajime (CNIC) The reform of the Japanese electric power system, including the deregulation of electric power retailing and the separation of power generation and transmission, occasioned the creation of several new markets....
A perusal of the recently released ‘Decommissioning Implementation Policies’ ~Decommissioning costs grossly underestimated at 15 trillion yen
By Nishio Baku, CNIC Co-Director From 25 to 27 December 2018, Japan’s electric power companies, nuclear fuel cycle businesses and users of nuclear fuel materials posted on their websites their “decommissioning implementation policies” for...
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries withdraws from the NPP project in Sinop, Turkey ~NPP makers need to switch to realistic track in the age of decommissioning~
By Matsukubo Hajime, CNIC On December 4, 2018, the Nikkei Economic Newspaper published an article entitled: “Turkish NPP: Government-private consortium, including Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, give up on construction.” We were not surprised by this...
CNIC Statement: Don’t push the risk onto citizens with the amendment of the Compensation for Nuclear Damage Act
CNIC Statement 12 November 2018 On November 2, a bill for the partial amendment of the Compensation for Nuclear Damage Act (hereafter, CND) was submitted to the Diet. In the first place,...
Commentary: Why wasn’t TEPCO bankrupted?
The nuclear accident at Tokyo Electric Power Company’s (TEPCO’s) Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station (FDNPS) has left TEPCO under a huge pile of debt. At the time, there were arguments in favor of dissolving...
