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Japan’s Monju Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor (FBR, 280MWe) is scheduled to restart by the end of the 2009 fiscal year (March 31, 2010). If it does so, it will be the first time the...
By Taku Hashimoto* Negotiations with the Nuclear Industrial and Safety Agency (NISA) about MOX fuel quality control problems (October 7, 2009) The Osaka Citizens Against the Mihama, Oi and Takahama Nuclear Power Plants is...
Another HLW Leak Japan Nuclear Fuel Ltd. (JNFL) is currently trying to restore the Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant after a leak of about 150 liters of high-level radioactive liquid waste (HLW) in the vitrification facility...
Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) had hoped to begin commercial operation of Units 6 and 7 of the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant (KK) in November, but it appears increasingly unlikely that it will be...
Sixteen MOX1 fuel assemblies shipped from Areva’s Melox MOX Fuel Fabrication Plant in France arrived at Kyushu Electric Power Company’s Genkai-3 Nuclear Power Plant on May 18 this year. Kyushu Electric finished loading the...
Chugoku Electric Power Company operates two nuclear power plants and is currently constructing a third on the Japan Sea coast in Matsue City, the capital of Shimane Prefecture (Shimane-3, ABWR 1,373 MW). On the...
By Yukio Yamaguchi* In July 2007, when the Chuetsu-oki Earthquake struck the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Station (KK), one man who was particularly concerned was Hiromitsu Ino. As a physical metallurgist, he had given evidence...
It is painful to remember this dreadful accident, but to commemorate the tenth anniversary I decided to jot down a few thoughts. The initial shock At noon on September 30, 1999 NHK news reported...
Concerned about the potential environmental and social consequences of the Japanese Government’s vigorous promotion of nuclear exports, on July 27, Japanese NGOs submitted demands regarding finance for nuclear energy related projects to the Ministry...
On August 31 Japan Nuclear Fuel Ltd. (JNFL) announced that it had extended the estimated date of completion of construction and testing of its Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant by fourteen months to October 2010. It...
