Citizens' Nuclear Information Center Blog
Step 3 of “active tests” at the Rokkasho reprocessing plant were completed on April 26th. Although numerous problems have arisen, Japan Nuclear Fuel Ltd (JNFL) has not officially changed the November 2007 scheduled date...
In a park in Vienna friends plant a tree in memory of Mayor ItohCeremony in memory of Nagasaki Mayor Iccho Itoh, slain on April 17th by a member of an organized crime syndicate. The...
(748 KB) NPT PrepCom and the US-India Nuclear Deal The Abolition 2000 AGM approved a statement to be handed to diplomats recommending that they challenge the US to show how the US-India nuclear deal...
Fate of Japan’s reprocessed uraniumJBIC approves finance for Kazakhstan uranium mine Another cost increase for Rokkasho reprocessing plant Citizens demand referendum on Genkai pluthermal HLW dump developments Prosecution for 2004 Mihama-3 accident Disposal of...
By Michiko Furukawa* Kazuyoshi Sato was born in 1953 in Naraha Town, Fukushima Prefecture. Naraha is the site of Tokyo Electric Power Company’s (TEPCO) Fukushima II nuclear power plant.He passed his elementary and middle...
Letter to the Japanese government from members and representatives of civil society groups and peoples’ organizations from India and Pakistan Zia Mian, of the Program on Science and Global Security at Princeton University and...
On 10 February 2007 the Mainichi Shimbun reported that in the course of tests being carried out prior to decommissioning the Fugen Advanced Thermal Reactor (ATR, 165 MW) it was discovered that concrete walls...
The cost of decommissioning and disposal of nuclear power plants is currently being discussed by the Subcommittee for Improvement of the Investment Conditions in Nuclear Power Generation (hereafter the Subcommittee). This is a subcommittee...
Over the years there have been all sorts of cases of data fabrication and falsification at nuclear, thermal and hydroelectric power plants. Each time the power companies and plant makers apologize and say that...
Three stacks of the Rokkasho reprocessing plant (Photo by Noboru Kobayashi) Japan Nuclear Fuel Ltd (JNFL) completed step two of the active tests (“hot tests”) at the Rokkasho reprocessing plant on 6 December...