Create No Nukes World With Us
(1.1 MB) Monju ruling at 2003 On 27 January 2003, the Nagoya High Court’s Kanazawa branch (presiding judge Mr. Kazuo Kawasaki) handed down a ruling to nullify the government’s 1983 permission for construction of...
Prefectural Governments of Niigata and Fukushima Completely Retract their Prior Consent to the Plu-Thermal Program Even with the Unscheduled Suspension of Reactor Operations, There is Still a Plentiful Supply of Power A New...
Anti-Nuke Who’s Who Tetsunari Iida: democratizing Japan’s energy policy By Eriko Arita, The Japan Times Tetsunari Iida set himself the task of democratizing Japan’s energy policy, which has long been decided only by bureaucrats...
Fukushima I Fukushima II
In response to the maintenance data falsification scandal concerning the Tokyo Electric Power Co. Inc. (TEPCO), the government immediately set up two committees on September 13. One committee is expected to evaluate how the...
Core Shroud Design Characteristics The core shroud in a BWR is a huge stainless steel cylindrical component within the reactor pressure vessel (RPV) that surrounds the fuel assemblies. The core shroud acts as a...
the “TEPCO scandal” and the adverse trend of easing inspection standards There has been a series of significant nuclear accidents over the past few years. To name a few, there was the Monju sodium...
(512 KB Revelation of Endless N-damage Cover-ups This series of cover-ups showed the scandal was not merely TEPCO’s particular problem but involved most of the nation’s electric companies Mechanism of Core Shroud and...
Date Facility Brief Description of Event Jan 15 Fukushima II-1 Reactor manually shutdown due to rupture of coolant flow measurement housing tube at jet pump. Mar 4 Takahama-2 Power reduction due to...
Figure 1: Annual Collective Dose of Workers’ Radiation Exposure at Nuclear Plants, 1980-2002 (FY) The workers’ exposure to radiation at nuclear power stations reached its maximum around 1980, but declined there after as a...
