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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...
Figure 1. Photos of an underground tank for contaminated water (Photos by TEPCO) The constantly increasing amount of radioactive water stored at the Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant is...
MOX Fuel Shipped to Monju Toshiba Certified as Supplier of U.S. ABWR UK Ready to Begin Returning Vitrified Waste Feasibility Study for Vietnamese Nuclear Power Plant Toshiba, Mitsubishi, Hitachi Developing Small Reactors Tsuruga-1 and...
Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) had hoped to begin commercial operation of Units 6 and 7 of the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant (KK) in November, but it appears increasingly unlikely that it will be...
(908 KB) 10.3 No Nukes Festa 2009 On October 3, about 7,000 people gathered in the rain in Tokyo for the first national gathering organized by the National Network Against Nuclear Energy since 2003...
– end piece falls to the bottom of the cleaning tank – Active testing of the Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant stopped for one month from October 1st to October 25th due to damage to equipment...
Quantity of Radioactivity Handled by Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant The Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant commenced active tests on 31 March 2006, the last day of the 2005 fiscal year. Japan Nuclear Fuel Ltd (JNFL) wanted to...
As reported in NIT 112, active testing (“hot tests”) of the Rokkasho reprocessing plant commenced on 31 March 2006. The tests are scheduled to continue for 16 months until July 2007, during which time...
1. Objective It is impossible to operate the Rokkasho reprocessing plant without discharging radioactivity with the liquid and gaseous wastes. It is, therefore, important for citizens to have information that they can trust about...