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html version gif version Major Incidents at Nuclear Facilities April 2005- March 2006 Date Company Facility Incident Description Comment 28 April 05 KEPCO Mihama-1 While conducting a visual inspection during periodic inspection of the...
CNIC translation of table released by the Federation of Electric Power Companies on 6 January 2006. See also links to statements by NGOs. Links to CNIC press releases and other related files Letter sent to IAEA re...
The data released this year (see tables below) is more detailed than in the past, though similar data was belatedly released last year in response to inquiries by CNIC and Diet Member Nobuto Hosaka. Of particular interest...
Green light for MOX use at ShimaneKyushu Electric sends delegation to Melox License application for “clearance” Hitachi and GE to receive US order CFIUS approves Toshiba’s WH acquisition Green light for MOX use at...
By Hideki Hayashi* Tetsuya Tanaka with a radiation detector In 1967, immediately after the plan for the Shika Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) was announced, the Togifukuura Alliance was formed to oppose the...
Only the most hard boiled egg heads took much notice when on June 15 the Hamaoka-5 reactor (ABWR 1380 MW) shut down automatically due to “excessive turbine vibration”, so it was quite a shock...
This article considers costs associated with nuclear energy which were not included in an electricity generation cost comparison published in 2003 by the Agency for Natural Resources and Energy (ANRE). ANRE’s figures are shown...
As reported in NIT 112, active testing (“hot tests”) of the Rokkasho reprocessing plant commenced on 31 March 2006. The tests are scheduled to continue for 16 months until July 2007, during which time...
(580 KB) Map of places mentioned in NIT 113 Active Tests at the Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant Internal exposure to plutonium was one major issue to arise during Step 1 of the hot tests. Already...
11 July 2006 Japan Should Withdraw its Opportunistic, Cynical and Impractical Offer to Cooperate with the US Global Nuclear Energy Partnership Japan has opportunistically jumped on President George Bush’s Global Nuclear Energy Partnership (GNEP)...