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2024 Noto Peninsula Earthquake A series of earthquakes, the biggest of which measured M7.6 on the evening of 1 January 2024, has stricken the Noto Peninsula in Ishikawa Prefecture. Tsunami flooding...
View ArticlePlanned Centralized Radioactive Waste Processing May Allow Uncontrollable...
By Sueda Kazuhide (Radioactive Waste Campaign Kansai) We have entered the age of full-scale decommissioning. Of all Japan’s commercial nuclear reactors, 24 are slated for decommissioning. The...
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Kaminoseki Interim Storage Facility Plans Should be Scrapped
Emergence and Outline of the Interim Storage Facility Plans The upper map shows the location of Kaminoseki in the western part of Japan (Yamaguchi Prefecture). The lower map shows more detail of the...
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Fukushima Now Part 2: Current State of Post-Accident Operations at Fukushima...
By Matsukubo Hajime (CNIC) State of the Plant The water temperature in the containment vessels and the spent fuel pools (SFPs) shows no great variation despite seasonal temperature changes. The state...
View ArticleFukushima Now Part 1: ALPS-Treated Contaminated Water
By Yamaguchi Yukio (CNIC Co-Director) Originally, “decommissioning” of the Tokyo Electric Power Company’s Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station (TEPCO FDNPS) was to take 30 to 40 years, but that is...
View ArticleNewspeak—“Nukes are Safe. Nukes Reduce Carbon.”
By Matsukubo Hajime (CNIC) Looking back at the situation regarding Japanese nuclear reactors in 2023, 12 nuclear reactors (11,608 MW) were operating, an increase of two reactors over the previous...
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Nuke Info Tokyo No. 218 (January/February 2024)
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. Read about the...
View ArticleCNIC Statement: 13 Years Later~ Earthquakes, Tsunamis, and Radioactivity
March 11, 2024 On March 11, 2011, the Great East Japan Earthquake, a magnitude 9.0 earthquake, occurred off the Pacific coast of the Tohoku region. This massive earthquake and ensuing tsunami set...
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My Hope 13 Years After March 11, 2011
By Uno Saeko (GAIA Japan Umitaiwa Team, National Association of Evacuees for the Right to Evacuation) Thirteen years into the Fukushima nuclear accident, while many have forgotten about it, believing...
View ArticleHigh School Students Looking Squarely at and Communicating about the Nuclear...
By Watanobe Yoshihiro, Fukushima Prefectural Soma High School Teacher A radio documentary program was produced by the Fukushima Prefectural Soma High School Broadcasting Station (the so-called...
View ArticleCNIC Statement: Is there any point in the fuel debris sample collection at...
September 10, 2024 On September 10, 2024, Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings (TEPCO) began collecting samples of the debris [1] at Unit 2 of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station. However, it...
View ArticleCNIC Statement: Concerns over Revival of the Nuclear Power Myth and...
September 27, 2024 This September, two major events are taking place in Japanese politics. One is the Liberal Democratic Party presidential election (votes were counted today, September 27th), and the...
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We will not Allow the Shimokita Peninsula to Become a Nuclear Waste Dump Yard!
By Komura Kazuo (Former Aomori Prefectural Assembly Member, Co-Director of the Aomori Prefecture Citizens’ Association to Protect the Future from Nuclear Waste) On July 27, 1984, the Federation of...
View ArticleGroup Intro: Aomori Prefecture Citizens’ Association to Protect the Future...
By Ito Kazuko In December 1983, the prime minister at the time, Nakasone Yasuhiro, announced that the Shimokita Peninsula would become a nuclear power Mecca, and on April 9, 1985, the governor of...
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Rough Sailing for Fukushima Daiichi Fuel Debris Removal Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) suspended its experimental attempt to retrieve fused nuclear fuel (debris) on September 17 from Fukushima...
View ArticleTsuruga Unit 2 Reactor Fails to Meet New Regulatory Standards
By Nishio Baku Nuclear Reactor Regulation Act Requires Revocation of Permit It was confirmed on August 2 at an extraordinary meeting of Japan’s Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) that the Tsuruga...
View ArticleFukushima Now (27) Part 1, Troubles Continue – But Will They Manage to...
By Yamaguchi Yukio I. Thirteen and a half years have passed since the unprecedented catastrophe of the Fukushima nuclear accident. While reflecting on the deep sadness experienced by people who have...
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Fukushima Now (27) Part 2, Current State of Post-Accident Operations at...
By Matsukubo Hajime State of the Plant The water temperature in the containment vessels and the spent fuel pools (SFPs) shows no great variation despite seasonal temperature changes. The state of...
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Nuke Info Tokyo No. 222 (September/October 2024)
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: Takakuwa...
View ArticleCNIC Statement: Safety problems at Onagawa Power Plant Unit 2.
October 29, 2024 The Onagawa Nuclear Power Plant Unit 2 reactor has serious safety problems, but Tohoku Electric Power is heading towards a restart. First of all, let us remind ourselves that the...
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