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Earthquake and blackout in HokkaidoOn September 6, an M6.7 inland earthquake struck the eastern Iburi district of Hokkaido, registering an intensity of 7 (the largest on the Japanese seismic intensity scale) at Atsuma Town...
Citizens' Nuclear Information Center Blog
Group Introduction: The Chichibu People’s Group Against Nuclear Power Plants
On the 12th of March 2011, just one day after the big earthquake and tsunami in Japan, my mother suddenly died. I went to my home country, Israel, and watched on TV from...
Nuke Info Tokyo No. 185 (July/August 2018)
NIT No. 185 pdf Report on Third ‘Plutonium Delegation’ to US An historic moment: US-DPRK negotiations, extension of the US-Japan Nuclear Agreement and Japan’s plutonium stockpile Preventing restart of Kashiwazaki-Kariwa CNIC Statement on...
Report on Third ‘Plutonium Delegation’ to US: An historic moment~ US-DPRK negotiations, extension of the US-Japan Nuclear Agreement and Japan’s plutonium stockpile
From June 24-27 CNIC, together with New Diplomacy Initiative, organized a delegation of Diet Members to visit the United States in order to discuss Japan’s plutonium policy with US Congress Members and officials. This...
Preventing the Restart of Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Station is Possible!
Niigata Prefecture Gubernatorial Election EndsThe Niigata Prefecture gubernatorial election is over. Unfortunately, Chikako Ikeda, who campaigned against the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Station (KKNPS) restart was defeated by 546,670 votes to her 509,568. In Kashiwazaki...
CNIC Statement on the Government’s Fifth Basic Energy Plan: The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry should face up to harsh realities
July 4, 2018 The Japanese Cabinet approved the fifth Basic Energy Plan on July 3. It was no more than two weeks after the public review and comment period on the plan was...
Bill to Abolish Nuclear Power Submitted to the Diet
A ‘nuclear power zero basic bill’ was submitted to the Diet by four opposition parties on March 9, 2018. These were the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan, the Liberal Party, the Japan Communist Party,...
Book Review: Sayonara Nukes ~The Case for Abolishing Nuclear Energy and Nuclear Weapons
by Dennis RichesCenter for Glocal Studies, Seijo University I first came across Dennis Riches’ blog about a year after 3.11 when I was in India studying anti-nuclear movements. I read it avidly for...
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High Court Overturns Suspension of Ohi Nuclear Power StationOn July 4th, the Kanazawa Branch of the Nagoya High Court overturned the Fukui District Court’s decision (May 21, 2014) to suspend operations of Units 3...