News Watch
FNCA Symposium The Forum for Nuclear Cooperation in Asia (FNCA), in which Japan’s Cabinet Office and the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology play a central role and which promotes cooperation in...
Citizens' Nuclear Information Center Blog
Who’s Who: Tetsuji Imanaka ~Nuclear Scientist Activist
Tetsuji Imanaka was born in Hiroshima in 1950, a second generation hibakusha. In the post-war recovery period, energy was a big problem in resource-poor Japan and many young people saw nuclear power generation as...
PuPo 2017 Presentations
Please see speakers profiles here Click on the names of speakers below to see their presentation/materials More will be added as they become available DAY 1: 23 February (Thurs) 10.00-10.10 Welcome Speech (Koichi Hasegawa)...
PuPo2017 Statement
CNIC in collaboration with the Union of Concerned Scientists held an international conference titled ‘The US-Japan Nuclear Cooperation Agreement and Japan’s Plutonium Policy’ (PuPo = Plutonium Policy for short). The following statement was signed by...
Nuke Info Tokyo No. 176 (Jan/Feb 2017)
PDF The post 3/11 (“three-eleven”) anti-nuke movement Power system accounting reforms to help no one but TEPCO Reference Material: Radiation exposure data (FY2015) News Watch Monju Decommissioning Now Official / Fukushima Prefectural Assembly...
The Post 3/11 (“three-eleven”) Anti-Nuke Movement
What was that nuclear accident? The investigation into the nuclear accident is continuing at a snail’s pace. This is because it is still impossible to get a clear understanding of just what the accident...
Policy Subcommittee for Acceleration of Electricity System Reform: Concerns that the Reforms will help no one but TEPCO
It has become clear that TEPCO’s losses from the Fukushima Daiichi NPS accident will exceed 21.5 trillion yen. Since TEPCO alone is incapable of bearing such huge liabilities, METI has decided on the policy...
Reference Material: Radiation Exposure Data for Nuclear Industry Workers (Fiscal Year 2015)
Data for Fiscal Year 2015, on the radiation exposure levels of workers in various nuclear facilities, including nuclear power plants, reprocessing and waste disposal facilities and research and development facilities, was released by the Nuclear...
News Watch
Monju Decommissioning Now Official On December 21, 2016, the Japanese Ministerial Committee on Nuclear Power formally decided to decommission the Monju prototype fast-breeder (280 MW), Tsuruga City, Fukui Prefecture, owned by the Japan Atomic...
Group Introduction: Tarachine — Mothers’ Radiation Lab Fukushima
On March 11, 2011, we in Fukushima experienced an unprecedentedly severe earthquake and tsunami, which were followed by explosions in a nuclear power station. While the earthquake and tsunami were devastating, we were aware...
