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By Nishio Baku, CNIC Co-Director From 25 to 27 December 2018, Japan’s electric power companies, nuclear fuel cycle businesses and users of nuclear fuel materials posted on their websites their “decommissioning implementation policies” for...
Trial Conclusion and Sentencing in Fukushima Nuclear Accident Criminal Suit Set for September 19 The Tokyo District Court has set 19 September 2019 as the date for trial conclusion and sentencing of the three...
by Miyazaki Shinya, Buddhist temple master, Hannyain Tokushima City The eleventh of March came around again. On this day eight years ago, we experienced a nuclear disaster of an unprecedented scale here in Japan....
<Please note, from this edition of NIT, Japanese names are written in the Japanese order, family name followed by given name > Report: Korea/Japan Plutonium Symposium: Nuclear Fuel Cycle Policies in Japan and Korea...
Onagawa Unit 1 to be Decommissioned The Tohoku Electric Power Company submitted a notification of changes to power generation facilities to the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry on December 21, 2018, saying it...
by Nagano Takafumi, Representative of Minamata Citizens Group for Considering Nuclear Evacuation Plans I have been engaged in the anti-nuclear power movement since 1976. Immediately after the disastrous nuclear accident that occurred at Fukushima...
By Caitlin Stronell and Matsukubo Hajime, CNIC On 26 November 2018 CNIC held an international symposium in collaboration with the Institute for Peace and Cooperation, Korea, as part of a research grant from the...
By Matsukubo Hajime, CNIC On December 4, 2018, the Nikkei Economic Newspaper published an article entitled: “Turkish NPP: Government-private consortium, including Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, give up on construction.” We were not surprised by this...
NIT No. 187 (PDF) Blowout panels useless in an accident-Basic design fault in Tokai No. 2 NPP CNIC Statements: Don’t allow Tokai No. 2 NPP to operate beyond 40 years! Don’t Reprocess Fugen’s...
Tokai No. 2 Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) is a Boiling Water Reactor (BWR), the same as the reactors which melted down at Fukushima Daiichi NPS. Its containment vessel is also Mark II type. Tokai...