Shika-2: Unjust Verdict! Nuke Info Tokyo No. 129
On March 18 the Kanazawa Branch of the Nagoya High Court handed down its verdict on an appeal concerning the Shika-2 Nuclear Power Plant (ABWR, 1,358 MW). The appeal related to a civil suit...
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Bilateral Nuclear Cooperation Agreements with Russia and Kazakhstan Nuke Info Tokyo No. 129
Negotiations for bilateral nuclear cooperation agreements between Japan and Russia and Japan and Kazakhstan have been continuing for nearly two years. The first round of negotiations with Russia was held on April 26, 2007,...
Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant Leak of 150 Liters HLW in Vitrification Facility Nuke Info Tokyo No. 129
Active testing of the Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant continues to be plagued by problems and accidents. Since the beginning of 2008, Japan Nuclear Fuel Ltd. (JNFL) has successively extended the schedule for commencing commercial operations...
KK-7: to restart or not to restart Will science be sacrificed for the sake of national policy? Nuke Info Tokyo No. 129
1. Moves to restart KK-7 Of the seven reactors at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant (KK), all of which have been shut down since the Chuetsu-Oki Earthquake in July 2007, Unit 7 (ABWR, 1356...
Stop MOX Shipments! Nuke Info Tokyo No. 129
A shipment of MOX (mixed plutonium and uranium oxide) fuel bound for Japan left the port of Cherbourg in France on March 5. As predicted, the ships (PNTL’s Pacific Pintail and Pacific Heron) will...
Nuke Info Tokyo No. 129 (March/April 2009)
(888 KB) Stop MOX Shipments! A shipment of MOX (mixed plutonium and uranium oxide) fuel bound for Japan left the port of Cherbourg in France on March 5. The ships will go around South...
News Watch 128 (January/February 2009) Nuke Info Tokyo No. 128
Pluthermal Developments MOX Transports from Europe in First Half of 2009 Sunameri Whales Appeal for Reversal of Permission to Reclaim Sea Application to Build 3rd Reactor at Sendai Uranium Enrichment Plant: Last Cascade Barely...
Group Introduction The Committee to Consider Pluthermal and Saga Prefecture’s Next 100 Years Nuke Info Tokyo No. 128
By Hatsumi Ishimaru* Collecting Signatures The Genkai nuclear power station is located in the north west of the island of Kyushu on the tip of Saga Prefecture. With a population of 8,000, Genkai Town...
Book Review JCO Criticality Accident Nuke Info Tokyo No. 128
The man whose body was destroyed from the inside out NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation) has produced an important contribution to the English literature on the criticality accident, which occurred at the JCO nuclear fuel...
Nuclear Plants and Facilities in East Asia and Japan (Maps current as at January 2009) Nuke Info Tokyo No. 128
1. Nuclear Plants and Facilities in Japan 2. Commercial and Research Nuclear Facilities in Japan 3. Nuclear Plants in Japan 4. Nuclear Plants in Asia (pdf 588 KB) (pdf 520 KB) (pdf 544...