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On September 7th the Minister of Economy Trade and Industry approved Kyushu Electric Power Company’s pluthermal1 plan for Genkai-3. This followed favorable reports by the Nuclear Safety Commission (NSC) on 29 August and by the...
On August 16th all three reactors tripped automatically at Tohoku Electric Power Company’s Onagawa Nuclear Power Plant in response to a magnitude 7.2 earthquake off the coast of Miyagi Prefecture. The direct reason...
60th anniversary of the atomic bombing Two years after the bomb was dropped, Robert Oppenheimer, the father of the atomic bomb, said, “physicists have known sin and this is a knowledge which they cannot...
From time to time NGOs are invited to send representatives to government policy committees and the like. Frequently, they do so knowing full well that they will be marginalized and that their proposals won’t...
(684 KB) New Nuclear Policy-Planning Council The Atomic Energy Commission has released a draft Nuclear Energy Policy Outline. It is highly likely that the draft will be endorsed as official policy quite quickly....
In July, the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency (NISA) released data relating to worker radiation exposure and the management of radioactive waste at nuclear facilities for the 2004 fiscal year. The data covers nuclear power reactors,...
The government has published details of Japan’s plutonium inventory for 2004. Click on the links below for relevant tables and analysis. 2004 plutonium inventory plus overview of long term trends – article in Nuke Info...
(756 KB) Map of places mentioned in NIT 107 Back-sliding on Monju It could be said that whereas the Nagoya High Court followed the precautionary principle, the Supreme Court threw caution to the wind....
Pluthermal plan for Shimane-2 Mitsubishi Heavy Industries shipped reactor vessel head to U.S. NPP Neutron flux detector containing highly enriched uranium lost Confidential nuclear information posted on internet Initial Safety Assessment for Ohma reactor...
By Tetsuo Maeda (Journalist) Not many people devote half their life to writing a single book. Life is too short to operate on that basis. Most writers are like butterflies, flitting from one flower...
