Create No Nukes World With Us
By Yukiko Mukai* Shoji Takagi pointing to a pamphlet against the Hamako NPP, for which he drew the illustration Me write an article introducing Shoji Takagi? CNIC asked me to do it, but I’m...
The inescapable conclusion that must be drawn from the Mihama-3 accident is that the full length of the piping in nuclear power plants must be checked at regular intervals. This, however, is a conclusion...
Introduction The Atomic Energy Commission’s (AEC) Long Term Nuclear Program sets out Japan’s basic policy on the research, development and utilization of nuclear energy. A review of this program commenced in June (see NIT...
By Gan Nemoto (Ibaraki Anti-Nuclear Collective) Cartoon by Shoji Takagi The Japan Atomic Power Company’s Tokai gas-cooled reactor (magnox, 166 MW), located about 120km north east of Tokyo in Tokai Village, Ibaraki Prefecture is...
Tombstones toppled by the earthquake. Tombstones have long been used as an idicator of the strength of earthquakes. They are still used to gauge the strength of earthquakes that occurred before seismic...
(676 KB) Map of places mentioned in NIT 103 Earthquake Zone: Earthquakes and Nuclear Safety in Japan It might seem obvious to the average man or woman in the street, or the average child...
Surprisingly Low Peak Demand High Burn-Up Fuel for Ikata Nuclear Power Plant 2.7 Billion Yen Apology Money to Suzu City Surprisingly Low Peak Demand In Japan an unprecedented heat wave gripped the entire...
By Hiroshi Miwa* Based in Suzaka City, Nagano Prefecture, the Nagano Soft Energy Resource Center was originally formed in March 1991. At the time it was called the People’s Research Institute on Energy and...
Five years have passed since the JCO criticality accident at Tokai Village. Two people died, compared to the five people who died in the Mihama-3 accident. At the time of the JCO accident Tokyo...