Nuke Info Tokyo No. 218 (January/February 2024) 

Nuke Info Tokyo is a bi-monthly newsletter that aims to provide English speaking friends with up-to-date information on the Japanese nuclear industry and the movements against it. 


Read about the Noto Peninsula Earthquake and its effects on nearby nuclear power plants in News Watch

Editor: Caitlin Stronell


Translators: Pat Ormsby, Tony Boys, Nishioka Mayumi

Proofreaders: Tony Boys, Yamaguchi Yukio

CONTENTS:

Newspeak—“Nukes are Safe. Nukes Reduce Carbon.” By Matsukubo Hajime

Fukushima Now Part 1: ALPS-Treated Contaminated Water  By Yamaguchi Yukio

Fukushima Now Part 2: Current state of the plant  By Matsukubo Hajime 

Kaminoseki Interim Storage Facility Plans Should be Scrapped  By Ban Hideyuki

Planned Centralized Radioactive Waste Processing May Allow Uncontrollable Reuse of Radioactive Waste as “Cleared” Waste  By Sueda Kazuhide

News Watch  2024 Noto Peninsula Earthquake /  Operational Ban on Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant Lifted / Operation Exceeding 40 Years Greenlighted for Sendai NPP / Japan and Poland Sign Memorandum of Cooperation for R&D on HTGR / Spent Fuel from Fugen to be Shipped to France in FY2027-31 / Delay, Defer and Dillydally at Tokai 

Who’s Who~Kataoka Terumi: A Feminist Christian Fighting for Human Rights   By Tomoki Fukui,