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Decommissioning Plans for Tokai Reprocessing PlantThe Japan Atomic Energy Agency applied to the Nuclear Regulation Authority on June 30 for approval of its plans for decommissioning the Tokai Reprocessing Plant. The plant is located...
Citizens' Nuclear Information Center Blog
Who’s Who: Atsuo Nakamura~ Actor/Activist
Actor Atsuo Nakamura rose to stardom when he played the hero in a popular TV drama series in 1972. In the drama, set in the Edo era, he played a lone-wolf gambler, whose pet...
Nuke Info Tokyo No. 178 (May/June 2017)
PDF Collapse of Toshiba Evacuation Orders Lifted for more areas in Fukushima CNIC Statements on two recent legal judgements Group Intro: OhMAGROCK News Watch Takahama Unit 4 Reactor Restarted/Fukui Buddhist Priest Goes on Hunger Strike/TEPCO Making New...
Toshiba’s Nuclear Ambitions Crumble — Collapse of the Toshiba-WEC Alliance
A major Japanese conglomerate with a corporate history of 142 years is on the verge of collapse. The main cause of this crisis is huge losses incurred by its U.S. nuclear subsidiary Westinghouse Electric...
Evacuation Orders Lifted for Iitate, Kawamata, Namie, Tomioka
The Japanese government has lifted evacuation orders for zones it had designated as “areas to which evacuation orders are ready to be lifted” and “areas in which residents are not permitted to live” as...
Two recent CNIC Statements: Maebashi District Court ruling on compensation for Fukushima Daiichi victims & Osaka High Court ruling on restarting Takahama NPP
CNIC recently released two statements on court cases related to nuclear issues, which we have translated into English so that international readers can see our position on these important court rulings as well as...
Group Introduction: Live Music Event OhMAGROCK vol. 10
Time flies so fast. We are celebrating the 10th anniversary of our live music event OhMAGROCK this summer. I became involved in the action to oppose the Ohma Nuclear Power Plant construction project, Ohma...
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Takahama Unit 4 Reactor Restarted Kansai Electric Power Co.’s (KEPCO’s) Takahama Unit 4 reactor (PWR, 870 MW) was restarted on May 17. It began power transmission on the 22nd and full operation on the...
Book Review: “YOSHIDA’S DILEMMA One Man’s Struggle to Avert Nuclear Catastrophe Fukushima － March 2011” by Rob Gilhooly
Rob Gilhooly first came to Japan from the UK in 1990, living and working for his first few years in Fukushima as a teacher on the JET Program. He was one of the first...
Nuke Info Tokyo No. 177 (March/April 2017)
PDF Fukushima Now Fukushima Technical Update PuPo 2017 International Plutonium Conference report News Watch: FNCA Symposium Horizon Nuclear Power of the UK Teaming up with Exelon of America Malfunctioning Crane at Tokai Reprocessing...