Citizens' Nuclear Information Center Blog
From the elimination of synthetic detergent to the anti-nuclear power movement – fighting against dangerous causes that threaten our lives by TOMIYAMA Yoko* Appeal for the abolition of the reprocessing of spent...
Atomic Bomb Dome in Hiroshima The Japan Congress against Atomic and Hydrogen Bombs (Gensuikin) organizes international conferences every year in August around the dates when the atomic bombs were dropped in 1945. In...
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe assured the International Olympic Committee (IOC) on September 8, 2013 that radiation leaks at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station were under control and did not pose any health...
Situation at the Plant Figure 1; Releases of radioactivity from Units 1 to 3 of Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station From materials prepared and submitted by the secretariat to the Government and TEPCO’s Mid-to-Long...
Storage tanks at Fukushima Daiichi, Photo by TEPCO Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station is currently facing severe problems with the leakage of water contaminated with radioactive substances. The reality on the site is...
(4.5MB) The Severe Contaminated Water Situation at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station Post-accident Cleanup Process at TEPCO Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station (April to June 2013) Efforts to settle the nuclear accident in Fukushima...
Year Date Facility Overview Report Classification 2012 April 3 Onagawa 1 Cessation of operation of spent fuel pool water clean-up system pump. April 3 Higashidori 1 Equipment abnormality alarm activated in the A...
On October 9, 2013, the Nuclear Regulatory Agency published the FY2012 report on the management of worker radiation exposure at nuclear power facilities. www.nsr.go.jp/committee/kisei/data/0026_03.pdf (in Japanese) Table 1 shows the data on radiation dose management...
Problems emerge in operations to bring the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station accident to an end, and in decontamination operations We demand the abolition of the multi-layer subcontractor system and the provision of jobs...
Decommissioning of Fukushima Daiichi’s four reactors rescheduled to be completed earlier than originally planned Radioactive leak at the Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex (J-PARC) Japan Nuclear Fuel Ltd. and Areva issue a statement of...