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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...
Category: Economics of nuclear power
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...
CNIC Statement, April 11, 2018 : Liquidate TEPCO!
On April 5, 2018, the government’s Nuclear Damage Compensation Dispute Resolution Center notified residents of Namie Town, Fukushima Prefecture, and TEPCO of its decision to discontinue its efforts to achieve an Alternate Dispute Resolution...
Tokai II Nuclear Power Plant’s 20 year extension: A story of economic inefficiency and passing the buck
On 28 November this year, the Tokai II NPP will turn 40. On 24 November last year, its operator, Japan Atomic Power Company (JAPC) applied to the Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) for a 20...
