Create No Nukes World With Us
By Hideki Hayashi* Tetsuya Tanaka with a radiation detector In 1967, immediately after the plan for the Shika Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) was announced, the Togifukuura Alliance was formed to oppose the...
Only the most hard boiled egg heads took much notice when on June 15 the Hamaoka-5 reactor (ABWR 1380 MW) shut down automatically due to “excessive turbine vibration”, so it was quite a shock...
This article considers costs associated with nuclear energy which were not included in an electricity generation cost comparison published in 2003 by the Agency for Natural Resources and Energy (ANRE). ANRE’s figures are shown...
As reported in NIT 112, active testing (“hot tests”) of the Rokkasho reprocessing plant commenced on 31 March 2006. The tests are scheduled to continue for 16 months until July 2007, during which time...
(580 KB) Map of places mentioned in NIT 113 Active Tests at the Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant Internal exposure to plutonium was one major issue to arise during Step 1 of the hot tests. Already...
11 July 2006 Japan Should Withdraw its Opportunistic, Cynical and Impractical Offer to Cooperate with the US Global Nuclear Energy Partnership Japan has opportunistically jumped on President George Bush’s Global Nuclear Energy Partnership (GNEP)...
Local authority gives green light to Genkai-3 pluthermal planApproval given for the use of MOX fuel at Ikata-3 Chugoku Electric holds meeting to explain Shimane-2 pluthermal plan Damage to reputation from JCO accident recognized...
Rokkasho Uranium Enrichment Plant Verdict On May 9th the Sendai High Court affirmed a lower court ruling rejecting an administrative law case against the Rokkasho Uranium Enrichment Plant. The plaintiffs claimed that the government’s...
By Katsumi Furitsu* Reading Japanese children’s stories at a care center in Belarus Kansai Relief for Chernobyl Hibakusha1 was formed in 1991, five years after the Chernobyl accident and in the same year that...
As promised in NIT 111, CNIC co-hosted an event in Tokyo to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Chernobyl accident. In the afternoon there was a symposium entitled “20 years after the Chernobyl catastrophe...