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Supreme court agrees to hear government’s Monju appeal First fuel loading at Higashidori-1 All six units at Fukushima I stopped Procedures for reactor shut down during terrorist and armed attacks compiled Stop Press:...
By Teruyuki Matsushita* Teruyuki Matsushita teaching about the forest There’s an unwritten law which says that if you live near a nuclear power plant, it’s hard to do business if you oppose nuclear power....
CNIC frequently refers to legal issues in its articles about the campaigns being waged against nuclear facilities in Japan. We thought readers might be interested in some background on the various legal challenges that...
This article begins with a follow-up on the report in NIT 101 about cracks in the Ohi-3 (PWR, 1,180 MW) reactor vessel head, then reports on the cracks that were discovered later in the...
Protesting in the snow: Scenes outside the gates of the Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant (21 Dec. 2004) Atomic Energy Commission endorses reprocessing On 12 November 2004 the Atomic Energy Commission’s (AEC) Long Term Nuclear...
(1 MB) Uranium Trials Begin at Rokkasho …with an estimated total cost of construction, operation and dismantling of 11 trillion yen, even supporters of nuclear energy are questioning the wisdom of proceeding with...
During the next Diet session, beginning in January 2005, a bill to introduce a ‘clearance’ system will be submitted as an amendment to the Law for the Regulation of Nuclear Source Material, Nuclear Fuel...
New Nuclear Policy-Planning Council to reprocess or not to reprocess: four scenarios This page deals with the New Nuclear Policy-Planning Council’s Interim Report Concerning the Nuclear Fuel Cycle Policy released on 12 November 2004. This report...
New Nuclear Policy-Planning Council Costings for Direct Disposal of Spent Nuclear Fuel The following tables and diagrams are taken from calculations of cost comparisons for four scenarios for dealing with spent nuclear fuel. The...
Hitachi Joins in the Development of ESBWR in the U.S. Mitsubishi to Tender for New Reactors in China Government/Industry Panel Formed to Discuss Reactor Export METI Launches a Study Group for Developing Energy...