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NRA Gives Go-ahead for Oceanic Release of Water Contaminated from the Fukushima Nuclear Accident Japan’s Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) approved a draft judgement on May 19 validating the design of facilities for releasing into...
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The 2022 Fukushima Peoples’ Rally for Achieving a Nuclear-Free Fukushima
By Kikuchi Yukari (Deputy Chair of the Fukushima Prefecture Teachers’ Union) “The 2022 Fukushima Prefectural Residents’ Rally for Achieving a Nuclear-Free Fukushima” was held on March 12, hosted by the planning committee, comprised of...
Nuke Info Tokyo No. 206 (January/February 2022)
Nuke Info Tokyo is a bi-monthly newsletter that aims to provide English speaking friends with up-to-date information on the Japanese nuclear industry and the movements against it. Editor: Caitlin Stronell Translators: Pat...
Fukushima Now: Current State of Post-Accident Operations at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station (Jul. to Dec. 2021)
By Matsukubo Hajime (CNIC) State of the Plant The water temperature in the containment vessels and the spent fuel pools (SFPs) varies mostly around less than 35oC and no great changes have been seen....
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Japan to Cooperate with America’s Fast Reactor Plans TerraPower, a US nuclear power development venture founded by Bill Gates, is planning to construct a “Natrium™” sodium-cooled fast reactor in the state of Wyoming. The...
Fukushima Now Part 2: Current State of Post-Accident Operations at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station (Jan. to Jun. 2021)
By Matsukubo Hajime State of the Plant The water temperature in the containment vessels and the spent fuel pools (SFPs) varies mostly around less than 35oC and no great changes have been seen. The...
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NRA Suspends Review of Tsuruga Unit 2 The Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) of Japan decided on August 18 to discontinue its review of the Unit 2 reactor at Japan Atomic Power Co.’s (JAPC’s) Tsuruga...
CNIC Survey on attitudes towards the Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant in Aomori and Iwate Prefectures
The Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant (RRP) is designed to extract plutonium from spent nuclear fuel and has been under construction for nearly 30 years. It is a key part of the Japanese government’s nuclear fuel...
CNIC Statement: We strongly protest the decision to discharge ALPS treated water into the Pacific Ocean and demand the withdrawal of this policy
<English Translation of Statement published on April 10, 2021> Citizens’ Nuclear Information Center Co-Directors: Yamaguchi Yukio, Nishio Baku, Ban Hideyuki It is reported that the government will decide on April 13 whether to release...
Ten years on from the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident: Japan-South Korea Joint online action launched – “Stop discharging radioactive water into the ocean” and “no more nuclear power generation”
By Hideyuki Ban, CNIC Co-Director Ten years have passed since the severe accident at the Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Station (FDNPS). To mark this occasion, South Korean anti-nuclear organizations called on their Japanese counterparts...
