Reference Material: Accidents and Breakdowns Occurring at Nuclear Power Plants and Nuclear Fuel-Related Facilities (FY2019)
Selected accidents at nuclear facilities in Japan in 2019:
Citizens' Nuclear Information Center Blog
Reference material: Japan’s Separated Plutonium Inventory (as of 31 Dec. 2019)
By Ban Hideyuki, CNIC Co-Director The Atomic Energy Commission released the official report on Japan’s plutonium holdings as of the end of 2019. Significant changes included the amount of plutonium stored at reactors in...
News Watch
Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant Completion Delayed by a Year Japan Nuclear Fuel Limited notified the Nuclear Regulation Agency (NRA) of Japan on August 21 that its scheduled date for completion of work on the Rokkasho...
Group Introduction: Hokkaido Active Citizen’s Association of Science (HACASE)
By Saito Kaizaburo, HACASE Co-ordinator The Hokkaido Active Citizen’s Association of Science (HACASE) was established in November 2015. At present there are about 25 members. The purpose of this group is, firstly, to investigate,...
Book Review: ABOLITION OF NUCLEAR POWER ~An appeal from the Catholic Church in Japan
The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Japan, Compilation Committee for Abolition of Nuclear Power Published in July 2020 English version available at www.cbcj.catholic.jp/2020/07/08/20963/ <Reviewed by Caitlin Stronell> The Editorial Committee on Nuclear Power of the...
M E T I announces policy to reduce 100 coal-fired electricity generation plants. But is this just an excuse to force nuclear restarts?
(translation of Citizens’ Nuclear Information Center Statement released on 28 July 2020) On 13 July 2020, at a meeting of the Advisory Committee for Natural Resources and Energy Subcommittee on Basic Policy for Electricity...
Nuke Info Tokyo No. 197 (July/August 2020)
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 Ormsby, Tony...
Current State and Future Directions of the Fukushima Nuclear Power Station Accident Verification Supervisory Committee
By Ikeuchi Satoru (Chairperson of the Niigata Prefecture Verification Supervisory Committee on the Nuclear Power Station Accident) History and Significance of the Verification Supervisory Committee More than nine years have already passed since the...
Current Situation of the Verification of the Fukushima Nuclear Accident by Niigata Prefecture Technical Committee
English summary of an article by Tanaka Mitsuhiko (Member of the Niigata Prefecture Technical Committee and former Member of the National Diet of Japan Fukushima Nuclear Accident Independent Investigation Commission (NAIIC)) Introduction The Niigata...
Post-Corona Japan, the Quake-Nuke-Maglev Combined Disaster and the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa NPS
By Ishibashi Katsuhiko (Emeritus Professor at Kobe University, Seismologist) There is no telling what will happen with COVID-19, the novel coronavirus pandemic, that should be regarded as a major disaster, but after it dies...