Fukushima Now – Part 2
By Matsukubo Hajime (CNIC) Current State of Post-Accident Operations at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station (Jun. to Dec. 2022) State of the Plant The water temperature in the containment vessels and the spent fuel...
Category: Accident
Childhood thyroid cancer cases confirmed in the Fukushima Health Management Survey and others
Fukushima Prefecture has been implementing thyroid gland examinations for children (born between April 2, 1992 and April 1, 2012) who were living in the prefecture at the time of the earthquake and nuclear disaster....
Group Introduction: Citizen’s Conference to Condemn Further Pollution of the Ocean (Kore Umi)
By Oda Chiyo (Co-Director of Kore Umi) We are a group of citizens who experienced the March 2011 accident of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station (FDNPS). Comprised of members living in and outside...
CNIC Statement: Twelve years after the TEPCO Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident – The ongoing nuclear emergency and the blurring of nuclear regulation and promotion
11 March 2023 Twelve years after the Great East Japan Earthquake and the accident at TEPCO’s Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station, the Government of Japan has announced a policy of a total return to...
“I started prioritizing treatment over my dreams for the future”: Public testimony of a young woman diagnosed with thyroid cancer after Fukushima disaster
On January 27, 2022, a group of six young men and women from Fukushima Prefecture filed a class action lawsuit against Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), claiming that the thyroid cancer they had developed...
Voices from Around the Pacific Rim Oppose Oceanic Release of Fukushima Daiichi Contaminated Water
By Ban Hideyuki (CNIC Co-Director) On December 17, 2022 “Don’t contaminate the oceans with radioactivity! International Forum: Voices of people around the Pacific Rim” was held online to oppose the oceanic release of (treated)...
Government and Nuclear Power Industry Ignoring Engineering Principles
~ Reactor manufacturers’ advanced pressurized water reactor farce is exposed: By Goto Masashi, former Toshiba nuclear engineer 1. Post-Fukushima nuclear accident nuclear power plant (NPP) restarts sluggish Today, nearly 12 years after the reactor...
The TEPCO Shareholders’ Lawsuit: Why TEPCO Executives Have Been Ordered to Pay 13 Trillion Yen in Compensation
By Kaido Yuichi (Attorney representing TEPCO Shareholders) A Nuclear Accident that Could Have Led to Collapse of the Nation Itself We succeeded in winning a ruling in favor of the plaintiffs on July 13...
Inside the Primary Containment Vessel of Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station Unit 1
Pedestal with Exposed Reinforcing Steel By Kamisawa Chihiro (CNIC) Survey of the pedestal exterior in the Unit 1 primary containment vessel On February 9, 2022, Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings, Inc. (TEPCO) and the...
Fukushima Now Part 1: Fukushima Reaches a Turning Point
By Yamaguchi Yukio (CNIC Co-Director) After the nuclear catastrophe in Fukushima in March 2011, the town of Futaba, located in Hamadori (the Fukushima coastline), became the only municipality in Fukushima Prefecture to decide to...
