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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 all apple pie in...
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 of releases of...
Emergence and Outline of the Interim Storage Facility Plans On August 2, 2023, Chugoku Electric Power Co. (Chuden) proposed plans to Kaminoseki Town for interim storage facilities to be constructed on its land holdings...
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 best-case scenario would be to enclose...
By Tomoki Fukui, Adjunct Lecturer, City University of New York, John Jay College Kataoka Terumi is a Christian feminist and a children’s rights, anti-irradiation, and antiwar activist whose antinuclear politics is rooted in her...
27 December 2023 Operational Ban on Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant Lifted – Is the Nuclear Regulation Authority Qualified to Make this Decision? In March 2021, in connection with the violation of nuclear material protection...
December 21, 2023 On September 27, in Tsushima City, Nagasaki Prefecture, where there had been moves to apply for a literature survey, the first step in the selection of a final disposal site for...
December 5, 2023 At COP28 in Dubai, the United States and the United Kingdom led a pledge to triple the world’s nuclear capacity by 2050 [i]. The 22 participating countries are the United States,...
Introduction to the Study Report on Nuclear Power Plants’ Vulnerability to Climate Change By Matsukubo Hajime (CNIC) Recently, some sectors in society are actively promoting nuclear power plants as a measure against climate change....
