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Nuke Info Tokyo No. 101 (July/Aug. 2004)
(1.1 MB) Map of places mentioned in NIT 101 Reactor Pressure Vessel Exported to Taiwan On July 2nd a ship carrying a reactor pressure vessel left the Port of Yokohama in Kanagawa Prefecture...
News Watch 100 (May/June 2004) Nuke Info Tokyo No. 100
Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant Project Further Postponed Operational Trials Commence at Hamaoka 5 Spent-Fuel Storage Facility Developments Still no candidates for High-Level Waste site Japanese Government to sound out the idea of an Asian...
Anti-nuke who’s who 100 Hironori Shinohara: living true to himself (The Anti-Nuclear Winds of Miyagi Committee) Nuke Info Tokyo No. 100
by Hiroaki Koide* I met Hironori Shinohara when I entered the faculty of Nuclear Engineering in Tohoku University in 1968. At the time, while exhibitions showing the horror of the atomic bomb were being...
Japanese power companies’ pluthermal plans: recent developments Nuke Info Tokyo No. 100
Since around the end of 2003 there has been quite a lot of movement on the pluthermal1 issue. This article is a report on these developments. KEPCO In September 2002 Kansai Electric Power Company (KEPCO)...
Plan for new and expanded nuclear power plants revised down once again Nuke Info Tokyo No. 100
In April the Ministry of Economy Trade and Industry’s Agency for Natural Resources and Energy announced the 2004(1) Electric Power Supply Plan (EPS Plan). This plan brings together the electric power demand estimates and...
No to the introduction of a clearance level Nuke Info Tokyo No. 100
Cartoon by Shoji Takagi As is the case overseas, Japan too is looking to introduce a ‘clearance level’ for radioactive waste. Under this system radioactive waste with less than a certain...
To our friends in the anti-nuclear movement around the world Nuke Info Tokyo No. 100
Participants in International MOX Assessment Interim Report Public Meeting, Kyoto, October 1996 In October 1987 the first issue of Nuke Info Tokyo (10 pages) was sent to our friends around the world...
Nuke Info Tokyo No. 100 (May/June 2004)
(548 KB) 100th Edition of NIT: To our friends in the anti-nuclear movement around the world In October 1987 the first issue of Nuke Info Tokyo (10 pages) was sent to our friends...
News Watch 99 (March/April 2004) Nuke Info Tokyo No. 99
MHI Receives Order for U.S. Repair Work MHI Bids for Reactor Manufacture in China TEPCO Requests Site for Spent Fuel Storage Request for Measures against Exposure to Cosmic Rays A Candidate for the...