Citizens' Nuclear Information Center Blog
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
(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...
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...
HLW dump developmentsOpposition to impact assessment for HLW dump Another line stops at Rokkasho uranium enrichment plant ITER related facilities to be built in Rokkasho Toshiba runs course on nuclear power in Vietnam FNCA...
By Shigeki Kobayashi and Yuko Oki Our company, KO-OK Productions, is a film production company run by the two of us: Shigeki Kobayashi and Yuko Oki. KO-OK is short for Kobayshi-Oki.We became involved with...