Articles and press releases by CNIC

Australian Uranium Exports to India and US-India Nuclear Deal (Letters handed to Japanese Foreign Ministry and Australian Embassy in Tokyo on 1 October 2007)

Bilateral Nuclear Cooperation Agreements (NIT 118, May/June 2007)

US-India Nuclear Deal: Giving Encouragement to North Korea (10 December 2006)

Call to Abandon Reprocessing as First Plutonium-Uranium Mixed Oxide (MOX) Powder Produced at Rokkasho (17 November 2006)

North Korea Nuclear Test: Statement of Protest (10 October 2006)

GNEP Expression Of Interest: Japan's Nuclear Industry Clutching at Straws (9 September 2006)

Japanese Government Urged to Oppose India-US Nuclear Deal: 48 Japanese NGOs submit petition to Prime Minister Koizumi (6 September 2006)

Global Nuclear Energy Partnership and Japan: Statement by Citizens' Nuclear Information Center and Green Action (11 July 2006)

Active tests begin at Rokkasho reprocessing plant: a sad day for nuclear non-proliferation (31 March 2006)

Rokkasho: active tests to begin any day (NIT March/April 2006)

Unaccounted for Japanese Plutonium: Japanese government releases new details of plutonium inventory (1 March 2006)

Japan and internationalization of the nuclear fuel cycle (Media Release 28 October 2005)

60th anniversary of the atomic bombing: Nuclear energy is not a controllable technology: from Hiroshima and Nagasaki to the elimination of nuclear energy. (NIT 108 Sep./Oct. 2005)

Thinking the Unthinkable: Japanese nuclear power and nuclear proliferation in East Asia (4 August 2005)

Report on NPT Review Conference (NIT 106 May/June 2005)

Letter to Prime Minister Koizumi re Rokkasho (21 April 2005)

CNIC Calls for a Moratorium on the Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant (Press Conference 21 April 2005)

Call for a Moratorium on the Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant (18 April 2005)

Proposals for a Moratorium on Reprocessing: the Case of Japan (14 March 2005)

Rokkasho and Proliferation Revisited (NIT March/April 2005)

Rokkasho Safeguards: What are they thinking about? (16 June 2004)

Is Japan qualified to undertake reprocessing at Rokkasho? (NIT 99 March/April 2004)

Japan's reprocessing policy and nuclear proliferation in Asia (NIT 93 Jan./Feb. 2003)

Basic data

Japan's plutonium inventory (see links listed on our data page)

Japanese Nuclear Power Companies' Plutonium Use Plans (see links listed on our data page)

Key statements

Japanese NGO Joint Statement calling for an end to plutonium production and reprocessing (30 April 2012)

Letter signed by over 160 experts and NGOs from 24 countries and sent to foreign ministers of governments represented on the NSG (15 August 2008)
-- Press Release -- Text of letter and list of signatories

US-India Nuclear Cooperation Deal: Letter sent to foreign ministers of governments represented on the NSG and on the IAEA Board of Governors (7 January 2008)

US-India Nuclear Cooperation Deal: Letter to the Japanese government from members and representatives of civil society groups and peoples' organizations from India and Pakistan (1 February 2007)

Global Nuclear Energy Partnership
(This is an unhelpful initiative announced by US Department of Energy on 6 February 2006.)

Statement re Rokkasho at NPT Review Conference, 24 May 2005:
Call for an indefinite postponement of the operation of the Rokkasho plutonium reprocessing plant: An appeal to Japan for leadership toward strengthening of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Regime

Statement re Rokkasho at NPT Review Conference, 5 May 2005:
Media Release: Japanese Plutonium Program Threatens Nonproliferation Regime, Warn Nobel Laureates and Other Experts: UN Delegates Told Reprocessing Plant Could Produce Plutonium for 1,000 Nuclear Bombs a Year
Statement: A Call on Japan to Strengthen the NPT by Indefinitely Postponing Operation of the Rokkasho Spent Fuel Reprocessing Plant

In larger freedom: toward development, security and human rights for all, Report of the Secretary-General of the United Nations 21 March 2005

Expert Group Releases Findings on Multilateral Nuclear Approaches, IAEA, 22 February 2005

Mohamed ElBaradei: 7 steps for preventing nuclear proliferation, POINT OF VIEW, The Asahi Shimbun, 15 February 2005

A more secure world: Our shared responsibility, Report of the Secretary-General's High-level Panel on Threats Challenges and Change, United Nations, 2 December 2004

G8 Action Plan on Nonproliferation, 9 June 2004

President Announces New Measures to Counter the Threat of WMD, George Bush, 11 February 2004

Links to Other groups

Arms Control Association

International Panel on Fissile Materials

Nuclear Control Institute

Nuclear Information (Stop Rokkasho web site)

Oxford Research Group