Nuke Info Tokyo No. 118 (May/June 2007)
(748 KB) NPT PrepCom and the US-India Nuclear Deal The Abolition 2000 AGM approved a statement to be handed to diplomats recommending that they challenge the US to show how the US-India nuclear deal...
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News Watch 117 (March/April 2007) Nuke Info Tokyo 117
Fate of Japan’s reprocessed uraniumJBIC approves finance for Kazakhstan uranium mine Another cost increase for Rokkasho reprocessing plant Citizens demand referendum on Genkai pluthermal HLW dump developments Prosecution for 2004 Mihama-3 accident Disposal of...
Anti-Nuke Who’s Who Kazuyoshi Sato: calm, but tenacious Nuke Info Tokyo 117
By Michiko Furukawa* Kazuyoshi Sato was born in 1953 in Naraha Town, Fukushima Prefecture. Naraha is the site of Tokyo Electric Power Company’s (TEPCO) Fukushima II nuclear power plant.He passed his elementary and middle...
Opposition to US-India Nuclear Cooperation Deal Nuke Info Tokyo 117
Letter to the Japanese government from members and representatives of civil society groups and peoples’ organizations from India and Pakistan Zia Mian, of the Program on Science and Global Security at Princeton University and...
Advanced Thermal Reactor Fails Strength Tests Nuke Info Tokyo 117
On 10 February 2007 the Mainichi Shimbun reported that in the course of tests being carried out prior to decommissioning the Fugen Advanced Thermal Reactor (ATR, 165 MW) it was discovered that concrete walls...
Cost of Decommissioning and Disposal of Nuclear Power Plants Nuke Info Tokyo 117
The cost of decommissioning and disposal of nuclear power plants is currently being discussed by the Subcommittee for Improvement of the Investment Conditions in Nuclear Power Generation (hereafter the Subcommittee). This is a subcommittee...
“Not Again”: Yet Another TEPCO Scandal Nuke Info Tokyo 117
Over the years there have been all sorts of cases of data fabrication and falsification at nuclear, thermal and hydroelectric power plants. Each time the power companies and plant makers apologize and say that...
Step 3 of Active Tests Begins at Rokkasho Nuke Info Tokyo 117
Three stacks of the Rokkasho reprocessing plant (Photo by Noboru Kobayashi) Japan Nuclear Fuel Ltd (JNFL) completed step two of the active tests (“hot tests”) at the Rokkasho reprocessing plant on 6 December...
Nuke Info Tokyo No. 117 (March/April 2007)
(700 KB) Step 3 of Active Tests Begins at Rokkasho On January 31st JNFL President, Isami Kojima, announced that the active tests would not be completed until October, meaning that the start of full...
Cost of Decommissioning and Disposal of Nuclear Power Plants
The cost of decommissioning and disposal of nuclear power plants is currently being discussed by the Subcommittee for Improvement of the Investment Conditions in Nuclear Power Generation (hereafter the Subcommittee). This is a subcommittee...