Nuke Info Tokyo 1996

NUKE INFO TOKYO 56 (Nov./Dec.1996)

• CNIC Holds -IMA Conference in Kyoto
• A year on from the Monju Accident-What has changed?
• Japan Exports N-plants to Taiwan
• News Watch
  — The Tokyo Meeting of the Asia Nuclear Safety Congress Held
  — ABWR Begins Commercial Operation
  — ”One Tsubo” Landowner Movement to Block the Ohma N-Plant
  — JT-60 Meet Conditions for Critical Plasma State
  — MITI Plans Off-Site Interim Spent Fuel Storage
  — Japan May Cooperate with Russian Dismantled Pu

NUKE INFO TOKYO 55 (Sep./Oct.1996)

• Maki Townspeople Chose a Nuclear Free Future
• An Accident Waiting to Happen
• Japanese Citizens’ Appeal on the CTBT Signing
• The IAEA Revises Guidelines for Transport of Radioactive Material
• DATA: Workers Exposure at Nuclear Plants (1985-95)
• Anti-Nuke Who’s Who – The Citizens of the Nice Electric Utilities
• News Watch
  — Troubles Continue in the World’s First ABWR
  — “Local Development” Highlight for Next Year’s Budget Demand
  — Tohoku Electric Apply Higashidori l Building Permit
  — Spent Fuel Begins to Overflow
  — Residents Opposed to Adding Hamaoka5

NUKE INFO TOKYO 54 (Jul./Aug.1996)

• Tokai GCR to Be Decommissioned But What About the Waste?
• Monju Sodium Leak. Increasing Doubts over STA’s Fact-Finding Efforts
• An Anti Nuke Mayor at Suzu City is Not to Be
• Siberian Nuke Center Lacks Safety & Safeguards
• Anti-Nuke Who’s Who – Mikio Shimaoka of Kubokawa Town
• DATA : Significant Incidents at Nuclear Plants (July to December 1995)
• News Watch
  — Meeting Held to Introduced ASIATOM Idea
  — Municipal Governments Stockpile Iodine, Independently
  — Anti-nuclear Shareholders Mad Proposal at Power Co.s’ AGMs
  — Ten Power Companies to Share Rokkasho Costs. 100 Billion Yen

NUKE INFO TOKYO 53 (May /June 1996)

• TEPC0 Plans to Use Dessel for its MOX Fabrication
• AEC Starts N-Energy Roundtable Amid Distrust and Uncertainty
• The Importation and Storage of VHLW at Rokkasho: Safety Concerns
• Monju Accident Update, Sheath at Last Found
• Anti-Nuke Who’s Who – The People in Front of the French Embassy
• Significant Incidents at Nuclear Plants (January to June 1995)
• News Watch
  — Graphite to Be Exported to China
  — Nuclear Industry Trying to “Denuclearize”
  — An Asian EURATOM
  — Public Hearing on Higashidoril
  — Onagawa3 is Granted Construction Permit
  — The Supreme Court rejected Suzu mayoral election

NUKE INFO TOKYO 52 (Mar. /Apr. 1996)

• The 10th Anniversary of the Chernobyl Accident – Citizens’ Aid Movements in Japan
• Japanese MOX Fabrication Contracts Made Without a Users License
• Proposal Concerning Future Nuclear Power Policy Implementation
• Revised Costs Prompt Significant Changes in Rokkasho Design
• Situation of Nuclear Power in South Korea
• News Watch
  — The International Conference on Asian Nuclear Cooperation
  — Nation’s First N-Plant Referendum to be Held
  — Internal Pump Tripped at Kashiwazaki 6
  — Recycle Nuclear Waste to be Used in Parks

NUKE INFO TOKYO 51 (Jan. /Feb. 1996)

• Plutonium Policy Stalled
• News Watch
  — Anti-Nuclear Mayor Elected
  — PNC & Related Local Gov.s Agree on Gen Research Lab
  — The Kushima Nuclear Power Plan Brought to an End
  — New Referendum Ordinance Adopted
  — The Mayoral Election at Suzu City Ruled Invalid
  — Move to Invite ITER, Strong