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CONTENTS Fukushima Now: As we enter the ninth year – what is meant by “reconstruction”? Fukushima Now: Current State of Post-Accident Operations at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station (October 2018 to January 2019) Nuclear...
by Matsukubo Hajime, CNIC State of the Plant From the water temperature in the containment vessels and the spent fuel pools (SPFs), and from the state of releases of Xenon-135, released when uranium fuel...
by Yamaguchi Yukio, CNIC Co-Director The calls for the “reconstruction of Fukushima” are cacophonous. A large part of the reason for this is next year’s Tokyo Olympics. Having won the bid to host the...
by Seto Daisaku, Secretary General, Evacuation Cooperation Center Eight years on from the TEPCO Fukushima nuclear accident, the government and Fukushima Prefecture, while making appeals for the reconstruction of Fukushima, are attempting to end...
By Nishio Baku, CNIC Co-Director From 25 to 27 December 2018, Japan’s electric power companies, nuclear fuel cycle businesses and users of nuclear fuel materials posted on their websites their “decommissioning implementation policies” for...
Trial Conclusion and Sentencing in Fukushima Nuclear Accident Criminal Suit Set for September 19 The Tokyo District Court has set 19 September 2019 as the date for trial conclusion and sentencing of the three...
by Miyazaki Shinya, Buddhist temple master, Hannyain Tokushima City The eleventh of March came around again. On this day eight years ago, we experienced a nuclear disaster of an unprecedented scale here in Japan....
<Please note, from this edition of NIT, Japanese names are written in the Japanese order, family name followed by given name > Report: Korea/Japan Plutonium Symposium: Nuclear Fuel Cycle Policies in Japan and Korea...
Onagawa Unit 1 to be Decommissioned The Tohoku Electric Power Company submitted a notification of changes to power generation facilities to the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry on December 21, 2018, saying it...
by Nagano Takafumi, Representative of Minamata Citizens Group for Considering Nuclear Evacuation Plans I have been engaged in the anti-nuclear power movement since 1976. Immediately after the disastrous nuclear accident that occurred at Fukushima...
By Caitlin Stronell and Matsukubo Hajime, CNIC On 26 November 2018 CNIC held an international symposium in collaboration with the Institute for Peace and Cooperation, Korea, as part of a research grant from the...
