Citizens' Nuclear Information Center
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31 May 2023 On 31 May 2023, the House of Councilors passed the “GX bundled bill,” including legislation to extend the operation period of nuclear power plants and to promote the use of nuclear...
By Nishio Baku (CNIC Co-Director) The Green Transformation (GX) Basic Policy proposed by the Japanese government mentions nuclear fusion as one of the next-generation innovative nuclear technologies in its reference information. I doubted my...
By Matsukubo Hajime (CNIC) In the last Edition of NIT, CNIC staff member Takano Satoshi reported on the Radioactive Waste Working Group, which he is a member of. As Takano explained, post-Fukushima especially, government...
By Mitsuta Kanna, FoE Japan On April 6, 2022, Friends of the Earth Japan (FoE Japan) issued a statement protesting the decision of Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC), wholly owned by the Japanese...
By Ban Hideyuki (CNIC Co-Director) On July 21, Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings (TEPCO HD) applied to the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry and Minister of State for Nuclear Damage Compensation and Decommissioning...
By Matsukubo Hajime（CNIC) On July 12, the Working Group on Verification of Power Generation Cost (hereafter, WG) of the Advisory Committee for Natural Resources and Energy, an advisory body to the Ministry of Economy,...
(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,...
