Create No Nukes World With Us
“OK. They’ve won their court case. Now perhaps they can let Monju go.” Thus spoke CNIC Co-Director Baku Nishio, attempting to put a favorable light on the Supreme Court’s rejection of the twenty-year struggle...
10th shipment of High-Level Radioactive Waste Application for permission to construct MOX plant Shika Nuclear Power Plant suspended due to a fallen transmission line tower Construction Approved for Shimane-3 Two Nuclear Bills Passed the...
By Takayuki Kodera* The Chernobyl Children’s Fund, Japan, was founded in 1991 by photojournalist, Ryuichi Hirokawa. On numerous times following the 1986 accident, Mr. Hirokawa photographed on location, where he met children suffering from...
1. What was the Mihama-3 accident? Nearly a year has passed since a pipe ruptured in the secondary system of Kansai Electric Power Company’s (KEPCO) Mihama-3 reactor (PWR, 826 MW, commenced operation 1976). The...
Refer to the two diagrams below for data on electric utilities’ expenditure and the nuclear industry’s sales and orders. On February 4th the Japan Atomic Industrial Forum, Inc. (JAIF) released a report on the state of...
The decline of nuclear energy – as seen in the 2005 Electric Power Supply Plan The Ministry of Economy Trade and Industry’s (METI) Agency for Natural Resources and Energy (ANRE) has released the 2005...
There are currently 53 operational nuclear reactors in Japan: 30 boiling water reactors (BWR) and 23 pressurized water reactors (PWR). Of those, nine (4 BWRs and 5 PWRs) commenced operations more than 30 years...
Introduction Scenes from a New York crowd (photos by Atsuko Nogawa) The Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) is being held at the United Nations...