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Japan’s Plutonium to be Handed over to France!? The Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA) signed a basic framework agreement with the French company Orano’s recycling subsidiary on March 30 regarding the transport and recycling...
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Supreme Court Ruling Rejects National Government Responsibility for Fukushima Evacuees
By Fukutake Kimiko (Head attorney for the Chiba Prefecture nuclear power plant victims lawsuit) On June 17, 2022, the Supreme Court of Japan put an end to the four lawsuits filed by the evacuees...
CNIC Statement: Things Japan needs to do regarding nuclear disarmament before “constructing bridges”
Suspend the spent nuclear fuel reprocessing plan, declare its support of No First Use and enshrine the Three Non-Nuclear Principles into law. Citizens’ Nuclear Information CenterJune 23, 2022 The first Meeting of States Parties...
US Trip Diary—America’s Uranium Development and Japan’s Uranium Garbage (Part 1)
By Matsukubo Hajime (CNIC) The Japan Atomic Energy Agency’s (JAEA’s) Tono Geoscience Center (in Gifu Prefecture) and Ningyotoge Environmental Engineering Center (on the border of Okayama and Tottori prefectures) store uranium ore and related...
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NRA Gives Go-ahead for Oceanic Release of Water Contaminated from the Fukushima Nuclear Accident Japan’s Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) approved a draft judgement on May 19 validating the design of facilities for releasing into...
CNIC Statement: Hokkaido Electric Power Company is not Qualified to Operate Nuclear Power Plants. Accept the Court Verdict and Close the Tomari NPP!
Citizens’ Nuclear Information Center 2 June 2022 On May 31, Sapporo District Court (Presiding Judge Taniguchi Tetsuya) handed down a verdict suspending the operation of Tomari Nuclear Power Plant. The reason given for the...
Urging Support for the 311 Children’s Thyroid Cancer Trial
By Ido Ken’ichi (Attorney) A group of six young people currently aged 17 to 27, who had been living in Fukushima Prefecture at the time of the Fukushima nuclear accident (then 6 to...
Status of Safeguards for Japanese Plutonium Stored in the UK and France
By Matsukubo Hajime (CNIC) For many years, Japan has commissioned the reprocessing of spent fuel to the United Kingdom and France (Table 1). The reprocessing itself of the commissioned spent fuel has already been...
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‘311 Children’s Thyroid Cancer Suit’ Filed Six people stricken with thyroid cancer as a result of exposure to radiation from the Fukushima nuclear accident filed suit against Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) in Tokyo...
South Korea’s Climate Justice Movement Challenges Insidious Governance Strategy with Diverse Tactics
By Takano Satoshi, Ph.D. Candidate, Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Seoul National University The Moon Jae-in administration, by encouraging public debate on nuclear power policy in 2017, has reached a decision on a “nuclear...
