The Nuclear Fuel Cycle in Japan

:: Fast Breeder Reactor Program
-- Monju Restart: Letter to Delegates at 2010 NPT Review Conference
-- Statement of Protest Against Recommencement of Monju Test Operation
-- Monju Restart: Appeal By Japanese Scientists
-- Monju restart - report on the history of Monju and Japan's fast breeder reactor program

:: Reprocessing and Radioactive Waste
-- High-Level Radioactive Waste Shipped from UK
-- Shipments of MOX fuel have resumed for the first time in six years.
-- Updates on active tests at the Rokkasho reprocessing plant.

:: Plutonium Holdings and Plutonium Use Plans
-- Japan's Plutonium Utilization Plans for 2010
-- Japanese official inventory of separated plutonium at December 31, 2008.

Nuclear Energy and Nuclear Weapons

-- Interview with CNIC's International Liaison Officer re Japan-India nuclear cooperation (text and video - see also CNIC's official statement)
-- Monju Restart: Letter to Delegates at NPT Review Conference 2010
-- Links to campaigns on nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation
-- Japan's Nuclear Ambitions

Japan - a Leader or an Obstacle in Nuclear Disarmament?

-- Letter to President Obama by 204 members of the Japanese Diet (February 19, 2010) pdf 100 kb
-- Petition, "Japan Should Take True Leadership Towards Nuclear Abolition", signed by over 230 NGOs and individuals involved in the Japanese abolition movment was handed to the Japanese government on October 15, 2009.
-- Japan has been used as an excuse to prevent the US from reducing the role of nuclear weapons.

Anti-Nuke Who`s Who

Latest: Masaharu Kawata

An activist-scientist who strives to inform citizens in a wide range of fields

Groups - Column introducing Japanese groups

Latest: APAST
(Union for Alternative Pathways in Science & Technology)
Fukushima accident has led scientists and engineers to establish an organization that actively communicates for society, searching for new pathways in science.