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Concerned about the potential environmental and social consequences of the Japanese Government’s vigorous promotion of nuclear exports, on July 27, Japanese NGOs submitted demands regarding finance for nuclear energy related projects to the Ministry...
On August 31 Japan Nuclear Fuel Ltd. (JNFL) announced that it had extended the estimated date of completion of construction and testing of its Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant by fourteen months to October 2010. It...
After winning a landslide victory in the House of Representatives election held on August 30, the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) has formed a coalition government with the Social Democratic Party (SDP) and the...
Chubu Electric Power Company’s Hamaoka Nuclear Power Station was struck by a magnitude 6.5 earthquake at 5:07am on August 11. The epicenter was 37 kilometers from the Hamaoka plant in Suruga Bay, in Shizuoka...
Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) was hoping that Unit 7 (ABWR, 1,356 MW) would soon be the first plant at its Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Station (KK) to resume commercial operations since the July 2007...
(640 KB) KK-7 Stopped Due to Radioactive Leak, KK-6 Begins Start-up Tests Local groups demand that start-up tests be suspended until investigations into KK-7’s leaking fuel rod problem have been concluded and that both...
On July 16 the Nuclear Industrial and Safety Agency (NISA) released its 2008 Fiscal Year (April 2008 to March 2009) report on radiation exposure incurred by people working at nuclear power plants, fuel cycle...
On September 2, 2009 the Federation of Electric Power Companies (FEPCO) announced a further amendment to Japan’s electric power companies’ plutonium utilization plans, having previously revised them on June 12, 2009. This time the amendment...
On June 12, 2009 the Federation of Electric Power Companies (FEPCO) announced a five year delay to Japan’s electric power companies’ pluthermal plans*. Originally the government and the electric power companies claimed that pluthermal would...
The table at the bottom of this page is a translation of a table released on March 6, 2009 by the Federation of Electric Power Companies (FEPCO). As noted in previous years, these plutonium utilization plans...
