Citizens' Nuclear Information Center Blog
By Taku Hashimoto* Negotiations with the Nuclear Industrial and Safety Agency (NISA) about MOX fuel quality control problems (October 7, 2009) The Osaka Citizens Against the Mihama, Oi and Takahama Nuclear Power Plants is...
Another HLW Leak Japan Nuclear Fuel Ltd. (JNFL) is currently trying to restore the Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant after a leak of about 150 liters of high-level radioactive liquid waste (HLW) in the vitrification facility...
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...
Sixteen MOX1 fuel assemblies shipped from Areva’s Melox MOX Fuel Fabrication Plant in France arrived at Kyushu Electric Power Company’s Genkai-3 Nuclear Power Plant on May 18 this year. Kyushu Electric finished loading the...
Chugoku Electric Power Company operates two nuclear power plants and is currently constructing a third on the Japan Sea coast in Matsue City, the capital of Shimane Prefecture (Shimane-3, ABWR 1,373 MW). On the...
On October 3, about 7,000 people gathered in the rain in Tokyo for the 10.3 No Nukes Festa 2009, the first national gathering organized by the National Network Against Nuclear Energy since 2003 (see...
(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...
Japan and Mongolia sign Memorandum of Cooperation Advisory Committee on International Nuclear Relations established New framework for human resource development in Asia Negotiations begin for Japan-Korea Nuclear Cooperation Agreement First meeting of FNCA 3rd...
By Yukio Yamaguchi* In July 2007, when the Chuetsu-oki Earthquake struck the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Station (KK), one man who was particularly concerned was Hiromitsu Ino. As a physical metallurgist, he had given evidence...