Nuke Info Tokyo No. 102 (Sep./Oct. 2004)
(820 KB) Map of places mentioned in NIT 102 Five Killed in Mihama-3 Accident …on August 9th, the 59th anniversary of the bombing of Nagasaki, there was a serious accident at the Mihama-3 reactor,...
Citizens' Nuclear Information Center Blog
a running report on the Mihama-3 accident by Hosokawa Komei
Magpie News a running report on the Mihama-3 accident by Hosokawa Komei The reports posted below proceed from the most recent one. Scroll down to see older reports. The content of this page was...
Japanese Nuclear Industry’s Back End Costs
Extract from article printed in Nuke Info Tokyo No.98 by Masako Sawai, CNIC (Nov,03-Feb04) Total cost of reprocessing 11 trillion yen In November the Federation of Electric Power Companies of Japan stated that total back-end costs amount...
Significant incidents at Japanese nuclear power plants and nuclear fuel facilities (Jan. 2003 – Dec. 2003)
DATE Operator Facility Name Type Short Description of Incidents Feb. 7 JNFL (Japan Nuclear Fuel Limited) Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant Reprocessing Plant Leak detected at fuel assembly transfer pit Feb. 12 Kansai-EPCO Takahama-1 Pressurized Water...
Workers’ radiation exposure at Japanese nuclear facilities (2003)
In July this year (2004) the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency (NISA) released figures relating to the radiation doses received by workers at Japanese nuclear facilities during the 2003 business year (April 2003 –...
Data: Japan’s Separated Plutonium Inventory (as at 2003)
Japan’s Plutonium Inventory for 2003 The government has provided information in various forms about Japan’s plutonium inventory for 2003. By following the links below readers should get the general picture, though the figures are...
News Watch 101 (July/August 2004) Nuke Info Tokyo No. 101
Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant Project Further Postponed Operational Trials Commence at Hamaoka 5 Spent-Fuel Storage Facility Developments Still no candidates for High-Level Waste site Japanese Government to sound out the idea of an Asian...
Anti-Nuke Who’s Who Mamoru Fukae: gentle, genial and diligent Nuke Info Tokyo No. 101
By Yoko Yamanaka* With his base in the Kita Kyushu1 citizens’ movement and in his role as the secretary of the We Want to Live in a Nuclear-Free Kyushu Collective (now Kyushu Network Against Nuclear Energy), Mamoru Fukae...
Cracks in reactor vessel head at Ohi-3 Nuke Info Tokyo No. 101
On May 4th, during routine inspections of Ohi-3 (Fukui Prefecture, Ohi Town (see map), Pressurized Water Reactor (PWR), 1,180 MW), a build up of white powder was detected around the area where the...
I join the ‘Long-term Nuclear Program’ Nuke Info Tokyo No. 101
by Hideyuki Ban, Co-Director, CNIC Recently I agreed to become a member of the government’s Long-Term Program for Research, Development, and Utilization of Nuclear Energy (Long-Term Program). I joined at the request of the secretariat of...