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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...
(720 KB) Map of places mentioned in NIT 106 Report on NPT Review Conference Japan’s inconsistency: calling for nuclear non-proliferation while extracting plutonium. (Click here to read article.) Pronounced aging of nuclear power plants There...
Proposal to export total package: power generation and reprocessing Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. bids for nuclear plants in China Preparations Begin for Monju Reconstruction Proposal to export total package: power generation and reprocessingKaoru Samejima,...
By Shinji Watanabe* Kyoko Ono (left) and Etsuko Abe In the 16th century, about 450 years ago during the ‘Age of Civil Wars’, the Seto Inland Sea was ruled by a feudal lord, called...
Major problems have arisen with the cooling system of the vitrified high-level waste storage buildings at the Rokkasho nuclear fuel cycle facilities in Aomori Prefecture. When complete, there will be a total of five...
Toshiba hopes to install a 10 MWe sodium-cooled modular reactor in the town of Galena (population of about 700) on the Yukon River in Alaska. On 14 December 2004 the Galena City Council passed...