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From time to time NGOs are invited to send representatives to government policy committees and the like. Frequently, they do so knowing full well that they will be marginalized and that their proposals won’t...
(684 KB) New Nuclear Policy-Planning Council The Atomic Energy Commission has released a draft Nuclear Energy Policy Outline. It is highly likely that the draft will be endorsed as official policy quite quickly....
In July, the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency (NISA) released data relating to worker radiation exposure and the management of radioactive waste at nuclear facilities for the 2004 fiscal year. The data covers nuclear power reactors,...
The government has published details of Japan’s plutonium inventory for 2004. Click on the links below for relevant tables and analysis. 2004 plutonium inventory plus overview of long term trends – article in Nuke Info...
(756 KB) Map of places mentioned in NIT 107 Back-sliding on Monju It could be said that whereas the Nagoya High Court followed the precautionary principle, the Supreme Court threw caution to the wind....
Pluthermal plan for Shimane-2 Mitsubishi Heavy Industries shipped reactor vessel head to U.S. NPP Neutron flux detector containing highly enriched uranium lost Confidential nuclear information posted on internet Initial Safety Assessment for Ohma reactor...
By Tetsuo Maeda (Journalist) Not many people devote half their life to writing a single book. Life is too short to operate on that basis. Most writers are like butterflies, flitting from one flower...
On June 8th it was confirmed that there had been yet another leak from the spent fuel storage pool (Figure 1) at the Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant. The location of the leak was a corner...
On June 12th the Japan Nuclear Cycle Development Institute (JNC) announced that it is considering sending 290 cubic meters of ‘uranium-contaminated soil’1 to the US. This ‘soil’ has been left abandoned near Ningyo Toge2, near...
reconfirms declaration for nuclear phase-out and suspension of construction of Taiwan Nuclear Power Plant No. 4 The No Nukes Asia Forum (NNAF) was held from June 2nd to 8th in Taipei, Taiwan. There was...