Nuke Info Tokyo No. 97 (September/October 2003)
(436 KB) Looking Back Over a Year of TEPCOs Cover-up On August 29 last year, an announcement was made about the long-term cover-up regarding cracks in the reactor shroud. Over the following year...
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Cost of Nuclear Power in Japan
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...
Significant Incidents at Nuclear Power Plants and Nuclear Fuel Facilities in 2002
Date Operator/ Owner Facility Name Type Short Description of Events Jan. 30 KEPCO Takahama 4 PWR Damage to steam generator tube found during periodic inspection. Mar. 4 TEPCO Kashiwazaki-Kariwa 1 BWR Reactor manually shut...
Workers’ Radiation Exposure from Replacing Reactor Core Shroud and Recirculation System Pipes (2003)
This article reports on the levels to which utility workers exposed from the replacement of reactor core shroud and recirculation system pipes based on the data that was made public by the request from...
Data: Japan’s Separated Plutonium Inventory (as at 2002)
Data: Japan’s Separated Plutonium Inventory Data compiled by CNIC Source: Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) Plutonium stock data of 2002 was officially released on September 2. According to the data,...
News Watch 96 (July/Aug 2003) Nuke Info Tokyo No. 96
Draft of Energy Basic Plan Compiled Radioactivity Detected in Metal Scraps Exported from Japan to Taiwan The 8th Shipment of High-Level Radioactive Waste from France Approval Given for Construction of Tomari 3 Mutsu City...
Anti-Nuke Who’s Who Dr. Saburo Murata: an activist doctor, walking alongside the Hibakusha in their suffering Nuke Info Tokyo No. 96
For many years Dr. Saburo Murata has been treating atomic bomb victims of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and Minamata disease* patients. He also works with nuclear industry workers who have been exposed to radiation,...
An Open Discussion about Reprocessing Policy was held Nuke Info Tokyo No. 96
On July 12th a workshop entitled “An Open Discussion about Nuclear Energy Policy Part 1 — what to do with reprocessing spent nuclear fuels” was held by the Research Group for Geological Disposal Problems,...
Workers’ Radiation Exposure from Replacing Reactor Core Shroud and Recirculation System Pipes Nuke Info Tokyo No. 96
This article reports on the levels to which utility workers exposed from the replacement of reactor core shroud and recirculation system pipes based on the data that was made public by the request from...
North American Power Failure Nuke Info Tokyo No. 96
The fact is that a power failure can occur at any time. Strangely enough, the power failure that occurred on August 14 throughout the east of Canada and the United States, represented about the...