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Mayor Who Approves of High-Level Waste Disposal Site Elected in Suttsu Town Race A mayoral election was held on October 20 in Suttsu Town, Hokkaido, along with a by-election for a town council member...
Category: Local movements
Group Introduction: Sayonara Genkai NPP Kurume City Group
Let’s move forward cheerfully and actively! By Tsutsumi Shizuo, Representative, Sayonara Genkai NPP Kurume City Group In the face of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power disaster, I thought that we had to not only...
WHO’s WHO: Shibahara Yōichi, a key person who passes down the story of how the Ashihama NPP Project was stopped
By Yoshii Michiko, Professor at Dept. of International Communication, Faculty of Humanities, Okinawa University Mie Prefecture, located in the southern part of the mid-Japan region, where the biggest city is Nagoya, hosts no nuclear...
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Five Former Prime Ministers Appeal for No Nukes On March 11, ten years to the day after the Fukushima nuclear accident, five former prime ministers of Japan appealed for abandonment of nuclear power. In...
Did Two Hokkaido Municipalities Really Put their Names Forward for the High-Level Radioactive Waste Repository Selection Process? The True Nature of the “Literature Review”
By Nishio Baku, CNIC Co-Director In August, the mayor of Hokkaido’s Suttsu Town suggested that the town should consider applying for the “literature review” that is carried out in the run-up to the selection...
Group Introduction: Hokkaido Active Citizen’s Association of Science (HACASE)
By Saito Kaizaburo, HACASE Co-ordinator The Hokkaido Active Citizen’s Association of Science (HACASE) was established in November 2015. At present there are about 25 members. The purpose of this group is, firstly, to investigate,...
Local political situation around Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Station (KKNPS)
English Summary of article by Yabe Tadao (Co-Director of the network for 3 local citizen groups against the KKNPS) It has been nine years since all reactors at the KKNPS were shut down. Of...
Current situation regarding the court case demanding an injunction on the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Station
English summary of article by Ito Yoshinori (Attorney, member of the legal team) So far, our court case demanding an injunction on the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Station (KKNPS) has had 29 hearings, the last...
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Evacuation orders lifted for parts of the long-term evacuation zones Though nine years have passed since the Fukushima nuclear accident, the zones designated as “Difficult-to-return-zones” still exist in seven municipalities, covering a total of...
Update on Kaminoseki Nuclear Power Plant Project
The Kaminoseki Nuclear Power Plant Project, long stagnating in Yamaguchi Prefecture, is facing a major turning point. Chugoku Electric Power Company, the proposer of the project, plans to build two nuclear reactors in a...