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Despite North Korea’s prior warning, its nuclear test came as a great shock in Japan. Once again, the question of whether Japan should acquire nuclear weapons raised its ugly head. At this stage it...
FBR R&D fundingOne billion yen for HLW dump candidates Earthquake Guidelines revised Second Japan-US GNEP meeting Japanese industry responds to GNEP request for Expressions of Interest Japan – Kazakhstan nuclear cooperation memorandum Plutonium data...
By Shun’ichi Uchiyama* Downtown Tokyo high school students Mayuko Suzuki (L) and Mina Hosoi with children in a children’s hospital in Kiev Chernobyl was a terrible accident. Despite what the government and the power...
Summary of article by Dr. Hiroshi Satomi of the Food Irradiation Network The Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) decided in 1965 to develop food irradiation as part of a policy of promoting multiple applications of...
Quantity of Radioactivity Handled by Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant The Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant commenced active tests on 31 March 2006, the last day of the 2005 fiscal year. Japan Nuclear Fuel Ltd (JNFL) wanted to...
On 31 May 2006 the Ministry of Economy Trade and Industry (METI) released a “New National Energy Strategy”. This Strategy contains a new phrase, “Nuclear Energy National Building”. This phrase had not appeared before...
(820 KB) Map of places mentioned in NIT 114 Irradiated Research Reactor Fuel Shipped to US On August 4th, two spent fuel assemblies were shipped from Kawasaki to DoE’s Idaho National Laboratory.Nuclear Energy Nation...
On August 4th, two spent fuel assemblies were shipped from Kawasaki to DoE’s Idaho National Laboratory (see picture above). The fuel was enriched to 20% and was used in the Research Reactor (100 kWt)...
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...