{"id":1984,"date":"2009-05-10T12:51:27","date_gmt":"2009-05-10T03:51:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cnic.jp\/english\/wordpress\/?p=1984"},"modified":"2015-02-27T17:58:20","modified_gmt":"2015-02-27T08:58:20","slug":"nuke-info-tokyo-no-130-mayjune-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cnic.jp\/english\/?p=1984","title":{"rendered":"Nuke Info Tokyo No. 130 (May\/June 2009)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"right\">\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/cnic.jp\/english\/newsletter\/pdffiles\/nit130.pdf\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cnic.jp\/english\/images\/buttons\/pdf.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"35\" height=\"15\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/b> (768 KB)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div align=\"left\">\n<div align=\"left\">\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/cnic.jp\/english\/newsletter\/nit130\/nit130articles\/kk7restart.html\">Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Unit 7 Restarted<\/a><\/b><br \/>\nIt is the first reactor at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant to be restarted since 16 July 2007, when the plant was struck by the Chuetsu-oki Earthquake.<\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/cnic.jp\/english\/newsletter\/nit130\/nit130articles\/kkdesignhistory.html\">Seismic Design of the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant: a Historical Perspective<\/a><\/b><br \/>\nThe history of the seismic assessment and design of Japan&#8217;s nuclear power plants suggests that it is more by luck than good management that Japan has managed to escape a nuclear earthquake catastrophe.<\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/cnic.jp\/english\/newsletter\/nit130\/nit130articles\/rokkasho.html\">Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant: a never ending series of accidents<\/a><\/b><br \/>\nThe regulatory body, the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency (NISA), deemed that JNFL was in breach of the Reactor Regulation Law on five counts.<\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/cnic.jp\/english\/newsletter\/nit130\/nit130articles\/nagao.html\">Nagao vs. TEPCO: Tokyo High Court Upholds Unjust Verdict<\/a><\/b><br \/>\nThe High Court accepted the diagnosis that Nagao suffered from multiple myeloma. However, the High Court jumped to the conclusion that there was not a high probability that Nagao&#8217;s condition was caused by his exposure to radiation while working in nuclear power plants.<\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/cnic.jp\/english\/newsletter\/nit130\/nit130articles\/mox.html\">MOX Fuel Ships Arrive in Japan Amidst Citizen Protest<\/a><\/b><br \/>\nOn May 18, 2009, two British-flagged vessels, the <i>Pacific Pintail<\/i> and <i>Pacific Heron<\/i> arrived in Japan from France carrying 1.7 metric tons of weapons-usable plutonium contained in 65 assemblies of MOX (mixed plutonium and uranium oxide) fuel.<\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/cnic.jp\/english\/newsletter\/nit130\/nit130articles\/supplyplan09.html\">2009 Fiscal Year Electric Supply Plan<\/a><\/b><br \/>\nA look at the plan for construction of new nuclear reactors reveals that the dates have been pushed back year after year. Some have been postponed for over 15 years.<\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/cnic.jp\/english\/newsletter\/nit130\/nit130articles\/ww130.html\">Who&#8217;s Who: Kamanaka Hitomi<\/a><\/b><br \/>\nMaking films that inspire people to take action.<\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/cnic.jp\/english\/newsletter\/nit130\/nit130articles\/nw130.html\">News Watch<\/a><\/b><br \/>\n&#8212;<a href=\"https:\/\/cnic.jp\/english\/newsletter\/nit130\/nit130articles\/nw130.html#intstrat\">Subcommittee releases draft international strategy<\/a><br \/>\n&#8212;<a href=\"https:\/\/cnic.jp\/english\/newsletter\/nit130\/nit130articles\/nw130.html#intcoop\">Institutional preparations for international cooperation<\/a><br \/>\n&#8212;<a href=\"https:\/\/cnic.jp\/english\/newsletter\/nit130\/nit130articles\/nw130.html#jordan\">Memorandum of Cooperation with Jordan<\/a><br \/>\n&#8212;<a href=\"https:\/\/cnic.jp\/english\/newsletter\/nit130\/nit130articles\/nw130.html#china\">Work begins on China&#8217;s first AP1000<\/a><br \/>\n&#8212;<a href=\"https:\/\/cnic.jp\/english\/newsletter\/nit130\/nit130articles\/nw130.html#kazakh\">Kharasan uranium mine opened<\/a><br \/>\n&#8212;<a href=\"https:\/\/cnic.jp\/english\/newsletter\/nit130\/nit130articles\/nw130.html#hitachi\">Hitachi falsified data about heat treatment of pipe welds<\/a><br \/>\n&#8212;<a href=\"https:\/\/cnic.jp\/english\/newsletter\/nit130\/nit130articles\/nw130.html#compo\">Nuclear compensation law amended<\/a><br \/>\n&#8212;<a href=\"https:\/\/cnic.jp\/english\/newsletter\/nit130\/nit130articles\/nw130.html#moxfab\">Delay to construction of MOX fuel fabrication plant<\/a><br \/>\n&#8212;<a href=\"https:\/\/cnic.jp\/english\/newsletter\/nit130\/nit130articles\/nw130.html#fire\">Frequent fires at nuclear power plants<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(768 KB) Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Unit 7 Restarted It is the first reactor at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant to be restarted since 16 July 2007, when the plant was struck by the Chuetsu-oki Earthquake. 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