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The streets of Kashiwazaki – Photo by Toach No Nukes Asia Forum 2008 (NNAF08) was held in Kashiwazaki-City and Tokyo from June 28-30. It coincided with a national gathering in Kashiwazaki to mark the...
(1020 KB) No Nukes Asia Forum 2008 NNAF08 was held in Kashiwazaki-City and Tokyo from June 28-30, coinciding with a national gathering in Kashiwazaki to mark the first anniversary of the Chuetsu-Oki Earthquake. KK...
Request for Hearings on Pluthermal for Tomari-3 Manufacture of MOX Fuel for Ikata and Hamaoka Begins Applications Called to Host TRU Waste Dump Various Computer Programming Errors MHI and Areva to Cooperate on Fuel...
Study of Warm Water Released from Sendai NPP as Citizens’ Science By Takeo Hashizume* Members of Anti-Nuclear Kagoshima Network (author left) Kyushu Electric Power Company is carrying out environmental studies with a view to...
In April, the Ministry for Economy, Trade and Industry’s Agency for Natural Resources and Energy announced the 2008 Fiscal Year Electric Power Supply Plan Outline. The Plan brings together the plans of all the...
The Preparatory Committee for the 2010 Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) Review Conference (PrepCom) was held from 28 April to 9 May in Geneva. I attended part of the PrepCom on behalf of CNIC and as...
No chance of completing the plant in May as planned The final stage of the active tests of the Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant began in February this year, but the high-level liquid waste vitrification facility...
On April 23 the Minister of Economy Trade and Industry approved the establishment of the Ohma nuclear power plant (NPP) in Ohma Town, Aomori Prefecture. This article is adapted from the first of a...
Since the July 2007 Chuetsu-oki earthquake, all seven reactors at the Kashiwazaki- Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant (KK) have been out of operation. The Governor of Niigata Prefecture said that, when considering the fate of...
(980 KB) Kashiwazaki- Kariwa NPP Assessment of the impact of the Chuetsu-Oki Earthquake runs into trouble Full MOX Reactor to Burn Japan’s Growing Plutonium Stockpile On April 23 the Minister of Economy Trade and...