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1. Victories in Court On May 28, 2009, in the 18th consecutive victory for the hibakusha (atomic bomb survivors), the Tokyo High Court recognized nine more plaintiffs as sufferers of atomic bomb-related diseases (hereafter...
Subcommittee releases draft international strategy Institutional preparations for international cooperation Memorandum of Cooperation with Jordan Work begins on China’s first AP1000 Kharasan uranium mine opened Hitachi falsified data about heat treatment of pipe welds...
By Philip White* Kamanaka Hitomi was a late comer to nuclear issues, but in a short time she has had a huge impact on the grass-roots movement in Japan. Her film Rokkasho Rapsody has...
On May 18, 2009, two British-flagged vessels, the Pacific Pintail and Pacific Heron arrived in Japan from France carrying 1.7 metric tons of weapons-usable plutonium contained in 65 assemblies of MOX (mixed plutonium and...
On April 28, the Tokyo High Court handed down its verdict on the late Mitsuaki Nagao’s claim for damages against Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO). Nagao’s family had appealed a May 23, 2008 decision...
This article provides an update on a report in Nuke Info Tokyo No.129 about a leak of high-level liquid waste (HLW) at the Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant. The leak occurred in the HLW Vitrification Facility....
Why Kashiwazaki-Kariwa? Prior to establishment of the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant there were oil fields in the region. Studies related to these oil fields showed that the ground was unstable, so informed locals knew...
On May 9, Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) began start-up testing of Unit 7 (ABWR, 1,356 MW) of its Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant. It is the first reactor at the plant to be restarted...
(768 KB) Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Unit 7 Restarted It is the first reactor at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant to be restarted since 16 July 2007, when the plant was struck by the Chuetsu-oki Earthquake. Seismic...
On April 3, the Ministry of Economy Trade and Industry’s Agency for Natural Resources and Energy released the 2009 Fiscal Year (FY09) Electric Supply Plan Outline. The Plan brings together the plans of all...