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Worker Exposure Data for 2007 and the Workers’ Compensation Case of the Late Tadashi Kiyuna
The Nuclear Industrial and Safety Agency (NISA) has published the collective radiation dose incurred in the 2007 fiscal year (April 2007 to March 2008) by people working at nuclear power plants, including Fugen and...
Data: Japan’s Plutonium Use Plan 2008 Fiscal Year
On 7 March 2008, the Federation of Atomic Power Companies published the electric power companies’ plutonium use plans for the 2008 fiscal year. On the same day the Japan Atomic Energy Agency published its research and development...
Data: Japan’s Separated Plutonium Inventory (as at 2008)
On September 8, the Atomic Energy Commission published Japan’s inventory of separated plutonium for the end of 2008 (see tables below: page 1, page 2,page 3). The data for plutonium held overseas at the end of...
Data: Japan’s Separated Plutonium Inventory (as at 2007)
Comments on 2007 Separated Plutonium Inventory The separated plutonium inventory for 2007 was released by the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) on September 9, 2008. We expect that an official English translation will be...
News Watch 125 (July/August 2008) Nuke Info Tokyo No. 125
Under-age workers employed in radiation-related work Japan-Kazakhstan Joint Statement Cameco Invests in GLE Japan-US Joint Statement on Nuclear Cooperation Missile Warning – False Alarm Under-age workers employed in radiation-related work A Toshiba sub-sub contractor...
Anti-Nuke Who’s Who Takashi Yamato: Fighting the Planned Kaminoseki Nuclear Power Plant Nuke Info Tokyo No. 125
By Tomiko Takeshige* It is planned that a nuclear power plant will be constructed in the middle of the Seto Inland Sea National Park. Takashi Yamato (30) lives on the island of Iwaishima, 3.6...
Nagao versus TEPCO: Unjust Verdict Nuke Info Tokyo No. 125
Case reveals the true nature of companies that exist to fulfill state policy Mitsuaki Nagao (left) chatting with his lawyer after giving evidence in court (6 April 2006) Mitsuaki Nagao was exposed to radiation...
Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant: Vitrification Problems Continue Nuke Info Tokyo No. 125
No indication when active tests will be completed Problems continue to plague the high active radioactive waste vitrification facility at Japan Nuclear Fuel Ltd’s (JNFL) Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant. Sixty glass canisters were produced in...
KK Investigation Committees: the Debate Rages On Nuke Info Tokyo No. 125
July 16 was the first anniversary of the Chuetsu-Oki Earthquake. What caused the earthquake? What damage was done to the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant (KK)? Discussion of these questions is continuing within the central...