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(translation of Citizens’ Nuclear Information Center Statement released on 28 July 2020) On 13 July 2020, at a meeting of the Advisory Committee for Natural Resources and Energy Subcommittee on Basic Policy for Electricity...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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....
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....
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...
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 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,...