Citizens' Nuclear Information Center Blog
– end piece falls to the bottom of the cleaning tank – Active testing of the Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant stopped for one month from October 1st to October 25th due to damage to equipment...
Four months have passed since the July 16 Chuetsu-Oki Earthquake. As at October 31st, 2,997 problems had been found at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant. Gradually the full scope of the damage is emerging....
The Hamaoka nuclear power plant is safe. You can shake it, but you can’t break it. Thus wrote Judge Akira Miyaoka (long may his name be remembered) of the Shizuoka District Court in his...
(708 KB) Hamaoka Verdict: Passing Judgment on the Judge After the Hamaoka hearings ended, the Chuetsu-Oki Earthquake gave us a preview of the type of problems which might arise in the much larger earthquake...
Monju Plant-Confirmation Tests BeginSuccessive Cases of Arson at Tomari-3 Construction Site Agricultural and seafood producers and consumers oppose Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant Regulations to be changed to extend time between periodic inspections Next generation light...
By Sukiko Kannaduki* Stop Rokkasho Bags STOP-ROKKASHO was initiated by musician Ryuichi Sakamoto in order to tell the world via the internet, through music and art, about the dangers of the Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant...
Letter sent to heads of NSG governments on 14 August 2007 (First sentence of paragraph 3 reworded slightly for governments which are not currently represented on the IAEA Board of Governors) Prime Minister …...
Since May 2006, Japan Nuclear Fuel Ltd. (JNFL) has been conducting “active tests” of its Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant in Aomori Prefecture. Step 3 of the 5-step tests was completed in April 2007, but in...
The appeal below was released in Tokyo on 21 August 2007 by the Group of Concerned Scientists and Engineers Calling for the Closure of the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant. The group announced its formation...
There were some misleading comments in the IAEA’s August 17 report on the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant (KK), as well as some sensible comments that the pro-nuclear lobby will try to ignore. Below is...