Group Intro: Nara No Nukes Network
By Hotta Mieko, Nara No Nukes Network Co-ordinator Nara City is my hometown. I established Nara No Nukes Network after the Chernobyl disaster in 1986. When it occurred, I was raising my two children,...
Category: Local movements
CNIC Webinar Report: Problems with Japan’s Nuclear-waste Disposal Policy as Seen from the Literature Review Currently Underway in Suttsu Town, Hokkaido.
By Takano Satoshi (CNIC) On March 18, 2023, CNIC held the second of its webinar series on “Critical Investigation of Japan’s basic policy on GX (green transformation).” It was titled “Problems on the government’s...
Niigata Prefecture’s Verification Supervisory Committee in Limbo
—How Will This Affect Restarts of TEPCO’s Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Units 6 and 7?— By Yamaguchi Yukio (CNIC Co-Director) Japan has seven nuclear reactors that have yet to be restarted despite qualifying under the new regulatory...
Who’s Who: Shimizu Toshiyasu-no matter how old he gets, people still call him by his nickname
By Kihara Shoji, Co-chair of the Hiroshima Chapter of the “Stop Kaminoseki Nuclear Power Plant Network” Mr. Shimizu Toshiyasu, was born on Iwaishima Island in Kaminoseki Town, Yamaguchi Prefecture in January 1955, and is...
Report on “The Symposium Concerning Geological Disposal of High-level Radioactive Waste from Nuclear Power Plants” held in Kamoenai Village, Hokkaido
By Takano Satoshi (CNIC) In November 2020, literature surveys were launched in Suttsu Town and Kamoenai Village, both in Hokkaido, as part of the official procedures for determining whether the two municipalities were suitable...
News Watch
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...
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...
News Watch
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...