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There are currently 53 operational nuclear reactors in Japan: 30 boiling water reactors (BWR) and 23 pressurized water reactors (PWR). Of those, nine (4 BWRs and 5 PWRs) commenced operations more than 30 years...
Introduction Scenes from a New York crowd (photos by Atsuko Nogawa) The Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) is being held at the United Nations...
(720 KB) Map of places mentioned in NIT 106 Report on NPT Review Conference Japan’s inconsistency: calling for nuclear non-proliferation while extracting plutonium. (Click here to read article.) Pronounced aging of nuclear power plants There...
Proposal to export total package: power generation and reprocessing Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. bids for nuclear plants in China Preparations Begin for Monju Reconstruction Proposal to export total package: power generation and reprocessingKaoru Samejima,...
By Shinji Watanabe* Kyoko Ono (left) and Etsuko Abe In the 16th century, about 450 years ago during the ‘Age of Civil Wars’, the Seto Inland Sea was ruled by a feudal lord, called...
Major problems have arisen with the cooling system of the vitrified high-level waste storage buildings at the Rokkasho nuclear fuel cycle facilities in Aomori Prefecture. When complete, there will be a total of five...
Toshiba hopes to install a 10 MWe sodium-cooled modular reactor in the town of Galena (population of about 700) on the Yukon River in Alaska. On 14 December 2004 the Galena City Council passed...
In each of the past two years, around this time Nuke Info Tokyo has included an article raising the question of whether Japan might some day acquire nuclear weapons (NIT 93, and NIT 99). These...
Past issues of NIT have reported on the fact that our Co-Director, Hideyuki Ban, is a member of the Japanese Atomic Energy Commission’s (AEC) New Nuclear Policy-Planning Council. (Recently AEC determined the official English title. Previously we...
