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Latest Issue of NIT

Nuke Info Tokyo 120 (September/October 2007 (504 KB))

  • Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Earthquake: Lessons from the Chuetsu-Oki Earthquake
  • IAEA Releases Report on Kashiwazaki-Kariwa
  • Appeal by the Group of Concerned Scientists and Engineers Calling for the Closure of the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant
  • Active Tests Recommence at Rokkasho
  • Worker Exposure Data for 2006 and the Workers' Compensation Case of the Late Tadashi Kiyuna
  • Abolition 2000 US-India Working Group sends letter to NSG governments
  • News Watch
    --Monju Plant-Confirmation Tests Begin
    --Successive Cases of Arson at Tomari-3 Construction Site
    --Agricultural and seafood producers and consumers oppose Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant
    --Regulations to be changed to extend time between periodic inspections
    --Next generation light water reactors
    --Muslim clerics say "No" to nuclear plan

Past Issues of NIT

2001 2000 1999 1998 1997

(Some of the older issues are only available in hard copy form. Please contact CNIC for copies of these issues.)


2007

Nuke Info Tokyo 119 (July/August 2007) (992 KB)

  • Indonesian Anti-Nuclear Activists Visit Japan/Korea
  • Japan's Nuclear Earthquake Safety Shaken to the Roots
  • Rokkasho Update
  • Towards Monju Restart
  • Taiwan-Japan Civil Society Forum
  • Major Incidents at Japanese Nuclear Facilities in FY2006
  • Who's Who: Toshiko Takeda
  • News Watch
    --First application of the "clearance" system
    --Toyo Town and Uken Village enact ordinances rejecting nuclear waste dumps
    --Three HLW laws passed
    --MOX fuel fabrication plant passes first assessment
    --Approval of pluthermal for Hamaoka-4
    --Mitsubishi Heavy Industries GNEP proposal

Nuke Info Tokyo 118 (May/June 2007) (748 KB)

  • NPT PrepCom and the US-India Nuclear Deal
  • Rokkasho Update: Earthquake safety and criticality design flaws
  • Nuclear State and Industry: Bottomless Depths of Corruption
  • Bilateral Nuclear Cooperation Agreements
  • 2007 Electric Power Supply Plan and Nuclear Industry Developments
  • Group Introduction: No to Radioactive Waste! Committee for a Prefectural Ordinance
  • News Watch
    --Mihama-3 criminal case finalized
    --MHI and Areva agree on basic specs. for new reactor
    --Uranium exceeding nuclear limit handled at nuclear fuel plant
    --Application for clearance for waste from Tokai-1
    --Residents of Toyo Town reject high-level waste dump
    --MHI becomes core FBR developer
    --Shake at Shika 1.9 times greater than predicted
    --Increased uranium imports from Kazakhstan

Nuke Info Tokyo 117 (March/April 2007) (700 KB)

  • Step 3 of Active Tests Begins
  • "Not Again": Yet Another TEPCO Scandal
  • Cost of Decommissioning and Disposal of Nuclear Power Plants
  • Shika-1 Uncontrolled Criticality Incident Cover-up
  • Advanced Thermal Reactor Fails Strength Tests
  • Opposition to US-India Nuclear Cooperation Deal
  • Japan's Plutonium Use Plan: 2007 Fiscal Year
  • Who's Who: Kazuyoshi Sato
  • News Watch
    --Fate of Japan's reprocessed uranium
    --JBIC approves finance for Kazakhstan uranium mine
    --Another cost increase for Rokkasho reprocessing plant
    --Citizens demand referendum on Genkai pluthermal
    --HLW dump developments
    --Prosecution for 2004 Mihama-3 accident
    --Disposal of TRUs / Waste Swapping

Nuke Info Tokyo 116 (Jan./Feb. 2007) (1 MB)

  • Reorganization of Japanese Nuclear Industry
  • Japanese Nuclear Industry Eyes New Nuclear Power Plants in Asia
  • Nuclear Plants and Facilities in East Asia and Japan (maps of facilities as at January 2007)
  • Group Introduction: KO-OK Productions
  • News Watch
    --HLW dump developments
    --Opposition to impact assessment for HLW dump
    --Another line stops at Rokkasho uranium enrichment plant
    --ITER related facilities to be built in Rokkasho
    --Toshiba runs course on nuclear power in Vietnam
    --FNCA pushes nuclear power in Asia
    --Pattern of data falsification
    --Mihama-3 restarts
    --Japan and US announce nuclear cooperation plan

2006

Nuke Info Tokyo 115 (Nov./Dec. 2006) (764 KB)

  • Aging Reactors: Symposium in South Korea
  • The Deepening Puzzle of Steel Used in Reactor Pressure Vessels
  • First MOX Powder Produced at Rokkasho
  • CNIC Response to North Korea's Nuclear Weapons Test
  • Japan's Plutonium Inventory for 2005
  • Anti-Nuke Who's Who: Yoshiko Kuratsubo
  • News Watch
    --Turbine damage due to "high-cycle fatigue"
    --Shifting international alliances in nuclear industry
    --Mitsui feasibility study into development of Russian uranium
    --Aomori governor unimpressed by application for receipt of radioactive waste from abroad
    --Tsuno Town won't apply for HLW dump
    --Application for pluthermal at Shimane-2
    --Local approval for pluthermal at Ikata-3
    --Call for Saga Prefecture citizens' referendum re pluthermal
    --Request submitted for approval of new fuel plan for Monju

Nuke Info Tokyo 114 (Sep./Oct. 2006) (820 KB)

  • Irradiated Research Reactor Fuel Shipped to US
  • Nuclear Energy Nation Building?
  • Exposure to Radiation During Regular Operations of Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant
  • Promoting Food Irradiation Without First Verifying its Safety
  • Workers' Radiation Exposure at Japan's Nuclear Facilities
  • Group Introduction: The Phase-Out Nuclear Energy Downtown Network
  • News Watch
    --FBR R&D funding
    --One billion yen for HLW dump candidates
    --Earthquake Guidelines revised
    --Second Japan-US GNEP meeting
    --Japanese industry responds to GNEP request for Expressions of Interest
    --Japan - Kazakhstan nuclear cooperation memorandum
    --Plutonium data for 2005

Nuke Info Tokyo 113 (July/August 2006) (580 KB)

  • Active Tests at the Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant
  • Cost of Nuclear Power in Japan
  • Statement by CNIC and Green Action about GNEP
  • Hamaoka-5 Low Pressure Turbine Vane Takes Flight
  • Major Incidents at Nuclear Facilities April 2005- March 2006
  • Anti-Nuke Who's Who: Tetsuya Tanaka
  • News Watch
    --Green light for MOX use at Shimane
    --Kyushu Electric sends delegation to Melox
    --License application for "clearance"
    --Hitachi and GE to receive US order
    --CFIUS approves Toshiba's WH acquisition

Nuke Info Tokyo 112 (May/June 2006) (832 KB)

  • Shika-2 verdict demands suspension of operations (includes report on new draft earthquake design guidelines)
  • FBR Report: A feasibility study for institutional preservation
  • Rokkasho Active Tests: Baku's View (CNIC's Co-Director, Baku Nishio, gives his perspective)
  • Rokkasho Active Tests: First Leak
  • 2006 Electric Power Supply Plan and Nuclear Industry Developments
  • Chernobyl 20th Anniversary Symposium in Tokyo
  • Group Introduction: Kansai Relief for Chernobyl Hibakusha
  • In Brief
    --Rokkasho Uranium Enrichment Plant Verdict
    --Another Leak at Rokkasho
  • News Watch
    --Local authority gives green light to Genkai-3 pluthermal plan
    --Approval given for the use of MOX fuel at Ikata-3
    --Chugoku Electric holds meeting to explain Shimane-2 pluthermal plan
    --Damage to reputation from JCO accident recognized
    --Data falsification at Higashidoori
    --Revision of earthquake design safety guidelines

Nuke Info Tokyo 111 (March/April 2006) (804 KB)

  • Rokkasho: active tests to begin any day
  • Project to measure radioactivity released from Rokkasho
  • Damage and cracking in BWR control rods
  • Court rules in favor of plaintiffs on Shika-2
  • Chernobyl 20th Anniversary in Japan
  • Data: Exports by Japanese nuclear power plant makers
  • Toshiba gambles on Westinghouse
  • Anti-Nuke Who's Who: Kazuyuki Takemoto
  • News Watch
    --Pluthermal developments
    --Toshiba falsified testing data
    --Request for withdrawal of Kumihama Nuclear Power Plan
    --Japan-U.S.-French cooperation on sodium-cooled fast breeder reactor
    --Eighty-five percent of employees feel anxiety working at nuclear plants
    --Material Unaccounted For

Nuke Info Tokyo 110 (January/February 2006) (1 MB)

  • Can safety be assured in the Monju modifications?
  • Foreseeing Japan's nuclear future
  • Nuclear Plants and Facilities in East Asia and Japan (maps)
  • A mobile nuclear reactor comes to Tokyo Bay
  • Atomic Energy Commission rubber stamps power companies' plutonium utilization plans
  • Japanese Nuclear Power Companies' Plutonium Use Plans (English translation)
  • Group Introduction: Shizuoka Network of Citizens Opposed to the Hamaoka Nuclear Power Plant
  • News Watch
    --Toshiba wins bid for Westinghouse
    --Company established for intermediate storage of spent fuel
    --Construction of Shimane-3 launched
    --Mitsubishi Heavy Industries receives two PBMR contracts
    --Mihama-3 suspension order lifted
    --Onagawa-2 resumes operation
    --General Electric and three Japanese firms sign agreement on ESBWR

2005

Nuke Info Tokyo 109 (November/December 2005) (512 KB)

  • Further delays at Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant
  • Nuclear Policy Planning Council in review
  • The birth of Japan Atomic Energy Agency
  • Management of cosmic ray exposure to aircraft crew
  • Plutonium inventory: 2004 data and future projections
  • South Korean nuclear waste dump vote
  • Anti-Nuke Who's Who: Koshiro Ishimaru
  • News Watch
    --Japan and internationalization of the nuclear fuel cycle
    --Uranium contaminated soil shipped to US
    --Projects for ITER-related facilities decided
    --Agreement for Spent Fuel Interim Storage Facility signed

Nuke Info Tokyo 108 (September/October 2005) (684 KB)

  • New Nuclear Policy-Planning Council
  • 60th anniversary of the atomic bombing
  • Onagawa reactors trip following Miyagi earthquake
  • Government approves Kyushu Electric's pluthermal plan
  • Workers' radiation exposure at Japan's nuclear facilities
  • Group Introduction: The Iwate Committee to Protect the Sanriku Sea from Radiation
  • News Watch
    --Mitsubishi wins order from EDF
    --Will development of next generation reactors be led by manufacturers?
    --Tokai Reprocessing Plant to be dismantled in 5 years
    --Mihama-3 accident: one year on
    --Modification work begins at Monju

Nuke Info Tokyo 107 (July/August 2005) (756 KB)

  • Back-sliding on Monju
  • No Nukes Asia Forum, Taiwan 2005
  • Significant Incidents at Japanese Nuclear Power Plants and Nuclear Fuel Facilities (Jan. 2004 - Dec. 2004)
  • US company may take uranium-contaminated soil from Japan
  • Rokkasho Reprocessing Facility: another leak from spent fuel pool
  • Anti-Nuke Who's Who: Hiromitsu Tokyosaki
  • News Watch
    --Pluthermal plan for Shimane-2
    --Mitsubishi Heavy Industries shipped reactor vessel head to U.S. NPP
    --Neutron flux detector containing highly enriched uranium lost
    --Confidential nuclear information posted on internet
    --Initial Safety Assessment for Ohma reactor Completed
    --People entered Tomari NPP to gather bamboo-shoots

Nuke Info Tokyo 106 (May/June 2005) (720 KB)

  • Report on NPT Review Conference
  • Pronounced aging of nuclear power plants
  • 2005 Electric Power Supply Plan
  • Recent Trends in Japanese Nuclear Industry
  • Final Reports on Mihama-3 Accident
  • Group Introduction: The Chernobyl Children's Fund
  • News Watch
    --10th shipment of High-Level Radioactive Waste
    --Application for permission to construct MOX plant
    --Shika Nuclear Power Plant suspended due to a fallen transmission line tower
    --
    Construction Approved for Shimane-3
    --
    Two Nuclear Bills Passed the House of Representatives

Nuke Info Tokyo 105 (March/April 2005) (728 KB)

  • Report on National Conference to Stop Two Nuclear Bills
  • International Critical Review on Japanese Long-Term Nuclear Program
  • Rokkasho and Proliferation Revisited
  • Super-Safe Reactor? (Toshiba 4S reactor for town in Alaska)
  • Nuclear waste that can't keep its cool (problems in high-level waste storage facilities at Rokkasho)
  • Anti-Nuke Who's Who: environmentalist sisters
  • News Watch
    --Proposal to export total package: power generation and reprocessing
    --Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. bids for nuclear plants in China
    --Preparations Begin for Monju Reconstruction

Nuke Info Tokyo 104 (Jan./Feb. 2005) (1 MB)

  • Uranium Trials Begin at Rokkasho
  • Cracks in Ohi-3 and Ikata-1: Companies' Responses
  • Nuclear Court Cases in Japan
  • Nuclear Plants and Facilities in East Asia and Japan
  • Group Introduction: Acorn Forestry Club
  • News Watch
    --Introduction of a 'Clearance' System: bill soon to be submitted to the Diet
    --Supreme court agrees to hear government's Monju appeal
    --First fuel loading at Higashidori-1
    --All six units at Fukushima I stopped
    --Procedures for reactor shut down during terrorist and armed attacks compiled
    --Stop Press: Hamaoka-5

2004

Nuke Info Tokyo 103 (Nov./Dec. 2004) (676 KB)

  • Earthquake Zone - Earthquakes and Nuclear Safety in Japan
  • Ibarakai Anti-Nuclear Collective Opposes Dismantling of Tokai Reactor
  • Long-Term Nuclear Program Planning Committee Publishes Costs of Nuclear Fuel Cycle
  • Workers' Radiation Exposure at Japanese Nuclear Facilities for 2003
  • NISA's Interim Report into Mihama-3 Accident
  • Anti-Nuke Who's Who: Shoji Takagi
  • Japan's Separated Plutonium Inventory for 2003 - updated from NIT 102
  • News Watch
    --Hitachi Joins in the Development of ESBWR in the U.S.
    --Mitsubishi to Tender for New Reactors in China
    --Government/Industry Panel Formed to Discuss Reactor Export
    --METI Launches a Study Group for Developing Energy Businesses in Asia
    --FNCA Holds First Study Panel Meeting
    --Saga Town Rejects High-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal Facility

Nuke Info Tokyo 102 (Sep./Oct. 2004) (820 KB)

  • Five Killed in Mihama Accident
  • Japan's Separated Plutonium Inventory (2003)
  • JCO Criticality Accident: Five Years On
  • Group Introduction: Nagano Soft Energy Resource Center
  • News Watch
    --Surprisingly Low Peak Demand
    --High Burn-Up Fuel for Ikata Nuclear Power Plant
    --2.7 Billion Yen Apology Money to Suzu City

Nuke Info Tokyo 101 (July/August 2004) (1.1 MB)

  • Map of places mentioned in NIT 101
  • Reactor Pressure Vessel Exported to Taiwan
  • Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant Update
  • I Join the 'Long-Term Program'
  • Significant Incidents at Japanese nuclear facilities in 2003
  • Cracks in Reactor Vessel Head at Ohi-3
  • Anti-Nuke Who's Who: Mamoru Fukae
  • News Watch
    --Further Developments re Spent-Fuel Storage Facility
    --Municipalities Surrounding Saga Town Oppose High-Level Waste Dump
    --Municipalities around Genkai Town Oppose Pluthermal Plan
    --Rokkasho Safeguards: What are they thinking about?

Nuke Info Tokyo No. 100 (May/June 2004) (548 KB)

  • 100th Edition of NIT: To our friends in the anti-nuclear movement around the world
  • No to Clearance Level
  • 2004 Energy Supply Plan
  • Pluthermal Developments
  • Anti-Nuke Who's Who: Hironori Shinohara
  • NEWS WATCH:
    --Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant Project Further Postponed
    --Operational Trials Commence at Hamaoka 5
    --Spent-Fuel Storage Facility Developments
    --Still no Candidates for High-Level Waste Site
    --Japanese Government to sound out the idea of an Asian version of IEA

Nuke Info Tokyo No. 99 (March/April 2004) (936 KB)

  • First case of Workers' Compensation for Multiple Myeloma
  • Is Japan qualified to undertake reprocessing at Rokkasho?
  • Nuclear Plants in East Asia(MAP)
  • Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant: exposure of inadequate protective measures against aircraft crashes
  • Revelations of Sloppy Management at Nuclear Power Stations
  • Anti-Nuke Who’s Who: The Sea and Takeichi Saito
  • NEWS WATCH
    --MHI Receives Order for U.S. Repair Work
    --MHI Bids for Reactor Manufacture in China
    --TEPCO Requests Site for Spent Fuel Storage
    --Request for Measures against Exposure to Cosmic Rays
    --A Candidate for the High-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal Site?
    --Nuclear Industry Trends
Nuke Info Tokyo No. 98 (Nov. 03 - Feb. 04) (696 KB)
  • Abandoned plans for Suzu and Maki Nuclear Power Plants: the beginning of the end?
  • Recent Developments in Nuclear Fusion Research
  • Open Debate Held re Fuel Reprocessing
  • Defective Welding in Spent Fuel Storage Pool at Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant
  • Developments Since Monju Court Decision
  • Anti-Nuke Who's Who: Misako Ogawa-- A Municipal Assembly Member Campaigning Against Nuclear Power
  • News Watch
    --Is Fukui Prefectural Assembly really prepared to oppose nuclear reactors?
    --FEPCO reconfirms target for pluthermal power generation project, but . . .
    --FNCA ministerial-level meeting: 'Nuclear power should be included in CDM'
    --Nuclear reactor terror response: new organization formed

2003

Nuke Info Tokyo No. 97 (Sep./Oct. 2003) (436 KB)
  • Looking Back Over a Year of TEPCOs Cover-up
  • Nuclear Fuel Cycle Plan and Plutonium
  • Energy Policy Basic Plan
  • JCO 4th Anniversary
  • Data: Japan's Separated Plutonium Inventory
  • Anti-Nuke Who's Who: Kaori Kanda
  • News Watch
    --Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant Operation Postponed for One Year
    --Government Agrees to Tax on the Storage of Spent Fuel
    --Mutsu City Council Does Not Approve of a Plebiscite
    --Electric Companies to Give Away Huge Donations to Local Communities
    --MOE Proposes a New Climate Change Tax Scheme
    --Nuclear Safety White Paper

Nuke Info Tokyo No. 96 (July/Aug. 2003) (352 KB)

  • Myth of TEPCO's Power Shortage: Tokyo can Survive without nuclear power!
  • North American Power Failure
  • Workers Radiation Exposure from Replacing Reactor Core Shroud and Recirculation System Pipes
  • An Open Discussion about Reprocessing policy was held
  • Data: Nuclear Workers' Radiation Exposure and TEPCO Coverup Accident
  • Anti-Nuke Who's Who: Dr.Saburo Murata
  • News Watch
    --Draft of Energy Basic Plan Compiled
    --Radioactivity Detected in Metal Scraps Exported from Japan to Taiwan
    --The 8th Shipment of High-Level Radioactive Waste from France
    --Approval Given for Construction of Tomari 3
    --Mutsu City Officially Invite a Spent Fuel Storage Facility
    --An Explosion at Fugen - Local Governments Being Put in Confusion

Nuke Info Tokyo No. 95 (May/June 2003) (764 KB)

  • Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant: Leakage from Storage Pool, Defective Construction Work, and Escalating Costs
  • 'Interim' Storage Facility: Fears that it will become a permanent disposal site
  • National Meeting to Give up Nukes on June 7
  • DATA: Significant Incidents at Nuclear Power Plants and Nuclear Fuel Facilities in 2002
  • Typical Boiling Water Reactor Structure (Diagram)
  • Anti-Nuke Who's Who: Yoko Nozaka
  • News Watch
    --Tokyo Electric Power Co. Seeks to Reactivate Nuclear Power Reactors
    --The Cost of Dismantling JAERI and JNC's Facility will be 2 Trillion Yen
    --Kagoshima Prefecture Accepts a Survey to be Conducted for the Construction of Sendai 3 unit
    --Onagawa 3 Automatic Shutdown due to an Earthquake
    --Decision Made on the Decommissioning of Musashi Institute of Technology (MIT)'s Reactor

Nuke Info Tokyo No. 94 (March/April 2003) (660 KB)

  • Ruling on JCO Accident
  • All 17 of TEPCO’s units shut down
  • Japan’s electricity liberalization policy
  • Japan’s Nuclear Development Plan
  • Recent Trends of Nuclear Industry (Diagrams)
  • Anti-Nuke Who’s Who: Kiyoshi Yoshimura
  • News Watch
    --Municipalities Put Tax on Storage of Spent Fuel
    --FNCA Meets in Naha
    --METI Works Out New Preferential Measures for Nuclear Power
Nuke Info Tokyo No. 93 (Jan./Feb. 2003) (1.1 MB)
  • Monju ruling at 2003
  • Japan’s reprocessing policy and nuclear proliferation in Asia
  • Data:
    --Nuclear Plants and Facilities in Japan
    --Nuclear Plants in East Asia
    (see CNIC's Data page to locate the latest version of these maps)
  • Anti-Nuke Who’s who: Tomi Maeda
  • News Watch
    --Citizens File a Complaint against TEPCO
    --Suspension of Incoming Spent-Fuel Deliveries
    --Second Line Stopped at Uranium Enrichment Plant
    --NUMO Begins Inviting Candidate Sites for HLW Disposal Facility
    --Introduction of “Defects Standards” Decided

2002

Nuke Info Tokyo No. 92 (Nov./Dec. 2002) (512 KB)
  • Revelation of Endless N-damage Cover-ups
  • Mechanism of Core Shroud and its Function
  • Government Agency Proposes “Defect Standards”
  • Data: TEPCO's Damage Cover-up and Data Falsification
    --Fukushima I: damage cover-up record
    --Fukushima II: damage cover-up record
  • Anti-Nuke Who’s who: Tetsunari Iida
  • News Watch
    --Prefectural Governments of Niigata and Fukushima Completely Retract their Prior Consent to the Plu-Thermal Program
    --Even with the Unscheduled Suspension of Reactor Operations, There is Still a Plentiful Supply of Power
    --A New Plan to Separate NISA from Nuclear Promotion Administration
    --The Fukushima Energy Policy Review Committee Publishes an Interim Report

Nuke Info Tokyo No. 91 (Sep./Oct. 2002) (536 KB)

  • JCO Criticality Accident Three Years on: Questions Still Unanswered
  • The 14th International Summer Symposium on Science and the World Affairs
  • Japanese Separated Plutonium Stockpile as at 2001
  • Workers’ Exposure at Nuclear Power Plants 1980-2001
  • TEPCO postponed Plu-thermal plan
  • Anti-Nuke Who's who: Toshiko Baba
  • Book Review
    "Recent Research Activities about the Chernobyl NPP Accident in Belarus, Ukraine and Russia.", by Dr. Tetsuji Imanaka
  • News Watch
    --ANRE Begins Nuclear Promotion Education in Earnest
    --An ANIS’ Assistant Section Chief Arrested on Suspicion of Bribery
    --New Construction of Tsuruga 3 and 4 Incorporated into the Government’s Plan
    --NFI Begins Preparation for PBMR Fuel Plan
    --Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Making a Large-Scale Investment in Plant and Equipment
    --Ground-Breaking Ceremony for the Mizumani Underground Research Laboratory
Nuke Info Tokyo No. 90 (July/Aug. 2002) (844 KB)
  • JCO Criticality Accident Three Years on: Questions Still Unanswered
  • The 14th International Summer Symposium on Science and the World Affairs
  • Japanese Separated Plutonium Stockpile as at 2001
  • Workers’ Exposure at Nuclear Power Plants 1980-2001
  • TEPCO postponed Plu-thermal plan
  • Anti-Nuke Who's who: Toshiko Baba
  • Book Review
    "Recent Research Activities about the Chernobyl NPP Accident in Belarus, Ukraine and Russia.", by Dr. Tetsuji Imanaka
  • News Watch
    --ANRE Begins Nuclear Promotion Education in Earnest
    --An ANIS’ Assistant Section Chief Arrested on Suspicion of Bribery
    --New Construction of Tsuruga 3 and 4 Incorporated into the Government’s Plan
    --NFI Begins Preparation for PBMR Fuel Plan
    --Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Making a Large-Scale Investment in Plant and Equipment
    --Ground-Breaking Ceremony for the Mizumani Underground Research Laboratory

NUKE INFO TOKYO No. 89 (May/June 2002) (388KB)

  • Rokkasho Uranium Enrichment Plant Trial
  • Decommissioning Cost of Fugen
  • Recycling of Nuke Waste!?
  • Planned Rokkasho MOX Plant plagued with problems
  • 2002 Electricity Supply: Contradiction of Electric Companies
  • Anti-Nuke Who's Who: Shizuko Senou - a Japanese housewife Joan of Arc
  • News Watch

NUKE INFO TOKYO No. 88 (March/April 2002) (204KB)

  • Hamaoka Nuclear Power Plant I - pipe rupture and water leak
  • Water leak from spent fuel pool in Rokkasho Reprocessing Facility
  • KEPCO gives up its plan to use French MOX
  • Data: Current situation in Japanese nuclear industry
  • Anti-Nuke Who's Who: Minoru Ito - fighting against Hamaoka nuclear power plants
  • News Watch

NUKE INFO TOKYO No. 87 (Jan./Feb. 2002) (248KB)

  • Decommissioning of Tokai Plant to Begin
  • Nuclear Plants Unfit to Withstand Impact of Aircraft Crashes
  • Conference in Taiwan to Stop International Waste Shipments
  • Map: Nuclear Plants in Japan and in East Asia
  • Anti-Nuke Who's Who: Yuko Yatabe - an activist with mother's eyes
  • News Watch

2001

NUKE INFO TOKYO No. 86 (Nov./Dec. 2001) (276KB)

  • JCO Criticality Accident: Superficial Changes and Forgotten Damages
  • Japanese Optical Glass Giant Involved in U.S. Nuclear Weapons Development
  • Nuclear Subsidies in Japan in Light of Kariwa Village's Rapika Incident
  • ESCO and Energy Conservation in Japan
  • Data: Japan's Separated Plutonium Inventory
  • Data: Workers Exposure at Nuclear Plants
  • Anti-Nuke Who's Who: Kenji Higuchi - the most intriguing photographer you'll ever meet
  • News Watch

NUKE INFO TOKYO No. 85 (Sep./Oct. 2001) (1.1MB)

  •  Kariwa Referendum: A New Blow to the Nuclear Program
  • Japan's Climate Change Policy and Nuclear Power
  • Government's Energy Policy to Intensify Nuclear Promotion
  • Fukushima Energy Review Committee: A Challenge to the Top-down Energy Policy
  • Anti-Nuke Who's Who: Daisuke Yoshida - Kariwa's young activist with a strong will
  • News Watch

NUKE INFO TOKYO No. 84 (July/Aug. 2001) (280KB)

  • Referendum at Kariwa Village: A Strong “7??No”7?? to MOX Program
  • JCO Criticality Accident Court Case Begins -- Matters examined; matters left untouched
  • DATA: Significant Incidents at Nuclear Facilities (2000)
  • DATA: Japan's Radioactive Waste and Spent Fuel Inventory
  • Public Opinion Increasingly Against the Kaminoseki Nuclear Plant
  • Anti-Nuke Who's Who / The Association for the Preservation of Nagashima's Nature - a group with a mission to protect the "Ultimate Paradise"
  • NEWS WATCH

NUKE INFO TOKYO No. 83 (May./June 2001) (892KB)

  • MOX Loading Postponed at Fukushima and Niigata Prefecture
  • Embrittlement Forecast of Light Water Reactors' Pressure Vessel Steels
  • Court Cases Involving Rokkasho Nuclear Fuel Cycle Facilities
  • Open Debate ob JCO Accident Reveals NSC's Imprudence
  • Anti-Nuke Who's Who: Koji Asaishi - imbued with the spirit and love of the rebel: a true anti-nuclear activist
  • News Watch

NUKE INFO TOKYO No. 82 (Mar./Apr. 2001) (316KB)

  • First Ever Simultaneous Shipments of HLW and MOX
  • Latest Developments in Aomori Prefecture
  • In Memory of Jinzaburo Takagi
  • Nuclear Fusion and the Current ITER Situation in Japan
  • DATA: Central Ministries Reform
  • Anti-Nuke Who's Who: Sakae Sugiyama - an activist with a green future in mind
  • News Watch

Nuke Info Tokyo No. 81 (Jan./Feb. 2001)

  • Towards a Peaceful and Sustainable Future
  • Lawsuit Against the Use if MOX Fuel at Fukushima 1-3
  • Protest Against Restart of the Tokai Reprocessing Plant
  • Exercising Self-Restraint For Our Children's Future: The Use of Ecotubes
  • Public Debate on Geological Disposal of Radioactive Waste
  • The Rokkasho Site: Recent Developments
  • Anti-Nuke Who's Who: Yuichi Kaido
  • News Watch
    --Tomari 3 Construction to be Launched
    --Injuries Due to Radiation Exposure Recognized as an Industrial Hazard
    --Former JCO Director and Others Indicted
    --Earthquake in Tottori
    --Hokkaido Governor Accepts Horonobe URL
    --JFBA Proposes that Nuclear Power Be Abolished
    --Monju and the Long-Term Program

2000

Nuke Info Tokyo No. 80 (Nov./Dec. 2000)

  • Few Safety Improvements Seen Since JCO Accident
  • The Impact of a Possible MOX Fuel Accident at Fukushima I -3
  • A tribute to Dr. Jinzaburo Takagi: Anti-Nuclear Scientist and Activist
  • A Farewell to Our Outstanding Leader Dr.Jinzaburo Takagi
  • My Colleague, Teacher, and Friend - Dr.Jinzaburo Takagi (Mycle Schneider)
  • Renewable Energy in Japan No.3: Biomass and Energy Conservation
  • DATA: Japanese Separated Pu Inventory (as of the end of 1999)
  • Who's Who: Michiaki Furukawa - a man of knowledge and action
  • News Watch
    --Promoters' Meeting Held for Establishment of Executing Company for HLW
    --Proposal Submitted for New Long-Term Nuclear Plan
    --76% Opposed to the Plan for the Horonobe Underground Research Laboratory
    --Hokkaido Governor Says 'Yes' to the Construction of Tomari 3
    --Nothing Could Be Done for Exposed Victims
    --Damages to SG Pipes Due to Stray Metal Chips
    --Kashiwazaki City Council Calls for Safety Confirmation on MOX Fuel
    --Additional Construction of Sendai 3 Proposed

NUKE INFO TOKYO No. 79 (Sep./Oct. 2000)

  • JAPAN'S PLUTONIUM POLICY AND MOX PROGRAM FULL OF CONTRADICTIONS
  • "No Nukes Asia Forum" 2000 Held in Japan
  • Renewable Energy in Japan: No.2: Wind Energy & Small Hydro Power
  • Data:Workers Exposure at Nuclear Plants(1980-1999)
  • SPENA Workshop 2000: Beyond Nuclear Energy Toward Sustainable Energy Path
  • Anti-Nuke Who's Who: Hideyo Kanematsu - a diligent activist fighting geological disposal
  • News Watch

NUKE INFO TOKYO No. 78 (July / Aug. 2000)

  • Waste Disposal Law Created to Assist Nuclear Development
  • Inquiry into the Responsibility of the Former PNC and STA
  • Discoveries of Radioactive Scrap Metal Highlight dangers of "Clearance Level" Plans
  • Renewable Energy in Japan: No.1 Solar Energy
  • DATA: Significant Incidents at Nuclear Facilities(1999)
  • Anti-Nuke Who's Who: Jinzo Isobe - "We are not fighting. We are seeking the truth."
  • News Watch
NUKE INFO TOKYO No. 77 (May/June 2000) (108KB)
  • Court Rules Against Closing Monju Fast Breeder Reactor
  • Dubious MOX Quality Control Not Just BNFL
  • Coolant Loss at Mihama 2
  • Geological Disposal to Gain Legal Approval
  • Criticality Accident Victims' Group
  • DATA: Nuclear Power Development Program
  • Anti-Nuke Who's Who: Yasue Ashihara: tireless leader of hometown campaigns
  • News Watch
NUKE INFO TOKYO No. 76 (Mar./Apr. 2000) (560KB)
  • MOX Data Fabrication: Lack of Regulatory Ability Exposed
  • Plans For Nuclear Power Plant at Ashihama Dropped
  • Problems Caused by the Decommissioning of Nuclear Power Plants
  • JCO Criticality Accident: STA Lowers Evaluation Levels of Exposure Dose
  • Updates on Nuclear Facilities at Rokkasho Village, Aomori
  • Anti-Nuke Who's Who: Kazumasa Aizawa - a man to free Tokai of its nuclear burdens
  • News Watch
NUKE INFO TOKYO No. 75 (Jan./Feb. 2000) (104KB)
  • MOX Program Postponed - Nuclear Industry hit hard by dishonesty
  • 1999 Workshop of Sustainable and Peaceful Energy Network Asia Held in Thailand
  • JCO Criticality Accident - The Victims and the Final Report
  • Conference on "Carriage of Ultra Hazardous Radioactive Cargo By Sea: Implications and Responses"
  • Data on Spent Fuel and Radioactive Waste As of March 1999
  • Anti-Nuke Who's Who: Sanshiro Kume - an instructor inside and outside school
  • News Watch

1999

NUKE INFO TOKYO No. 74 (Nov./Dec. 1999) (120KB)
  • JCO Criticality Accident: How Many Lessons Will It Take?
  • The Effects of Released Neutrons and Radioactive Materials
  • Release All Data on Exposure Doses As Soon As Possible
  • The History of JCO Ltd.
  • Anti-Nuke Groupes Take KEPCO to Court Over MOX Data Falsification
  • Workers' Exposure at Nuclear Plants(1985-1998)
  • Annual Collective Dose of N-Plant Workers(person-Sv)
  • Developments ar Rokkasho Nuclear Fuel Cycle Facility
  • Anti-Nuke Who's Who: Gan Nemoto - "Gan-san" has national currency
  • Many Thanks to the Translators and Proof-Readers
  • News Watch
NUKE INFO TOKYO No. 73 (Sep./Oct. 1999) (92KB)
  • WORST ACCIDENT IN JAPANESE NUCLEAR HISTORY (TOKAI Criticality Accident)
  • BNFL Fabricates MOX Fuel Inspection DATA
  • MOX Fuel Arrives In Japan
  • 80% of the Public Wary of Nuclear Power
  • All MOX License Applied for Ohma Reactor
  • Resumption of Spent Fuel Shipments to Rokkasho Reprocessing
  • Tsuruga Accident Report No.2
  • Anti-Nuke Who's Who: GEN [Green Energy "law" Network]
  • News Watch
NUKE INFO TOKYO No. 72 (July/Aug. 1999)
  • Tsuruga 2 Reactor: A Large Amount of Coolant Water Leak
  • Transport Ships on Thier Way to Japan
  • Data: Significant Incidents at Nuclear Power Plants(1998)
  • Nuclear Power Plants and Related Facilities in Japan
  • The 1999 Workshop: Sustainable and Peaceful Energy Network -Asia in Thailand
  • Anti-Nuke Who's Who: Shoji Kihara
  • News Watch
NUKE INFO TOKYO No.71 (May/June 1999)
  • CNIC Makes anti-MOX Appeal at Hague
  • Common Appeal against any Plutonium Extraction and Utilization
  • Operation of Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant Delayed Once Again
  • Review of Long-term Program on Nuclear Energy Begins
  • Electric Utility Industry Law Amended
  • Ainti-Nuke Who's Who - Ryoichi Hirano
  • News Watch
NUKE INFO TOKYO No. 70 (Mar./Apr. 1999)
  • CNIC put an opinion add in the "FIJI TIMES"
  • Recent MOX Situation in Japan
  • The Fourth Shipment of HLW
  • A Sustainable and Peaceful Energy Future in Asia
  • Current Situation in Japanese Nuclear Industries
  • TV Documentary on Dr. Takagi's Life as Nuclear Scientist
  • Anti-Nuke Who's Who: Ikuo Kusaka
  • News Watch
NUKE INFO TOKYO No. 69 (Jan./Feb. 1999)
  • CNIC and Stop MOX Campaign Representatives Visit Fiji
  • International Coalition Condemns Secret Japanese Plan to Ship Plutonium; Organizations Call on Japan to Halt Plutonium Program
  • Doctored Casks to be Used Continuously
  • Plan to Build 20 New Reactors-Unlikely to Succeed
  • Uncertain Future for Japan's Electric Power Deregulation-Talks Focus Exclusively on Cheaper Rates
  • Takagi School for Alternative Scientists
  • Spent Fuel Stored and Storage Capacity in Japanese Nuclear Power Plant
  • News Watch

1998

NUKE INFO TOKYO No. 68 (Nov./Dec. 1998)
  • CNIC Workshop on Energy Held in S.Korea
  • Asian Scientists and Environmentalists Call for Action to Protect Our Climate
  • Spent-Fuel Cask Data Doctored
  • New Series of Roundtable Talks Begins
  • Anti-Nuke Who's Who: Masayuki Sato
  • Data: Workers' Radiation Exposure at Nuclear Power Plants
  • News Watch
NUKE INFO TOKYO No. 67 (Sept./Oct. 1998)
  • Aomori Allows Spent Fuel Shipment to Rokkasho
  • CNIC now Headed by Three Representatives
  • On My Resignation as the Exective Director of CNIC -Jinzabro Takagi
  • Jabiluka Mining -The controversial project backed by Japanese power utilities
  • Appeal from Scientists in Japan to the Scientists and Citizens of the World(complete version)
  • Anti-Nuke Who's Who - Takatoshi Yamazaki
  • Data - Significant Incidents at Nuclear Plants(July-December, 1997)
  • Statement Calling for the Cancellation of the MOX Transport Plan and Appeal for Signature Campaign
  • News Watch
NUKE INFO TOKYO No. 66 (July/Aug. 1998)
  • Spent Fuel Transport Casks from Japan Also Contaminated - Contaminations from Early '90s Finally Revealed
  • No Hope for Rally by Nuclear Power - Government Formulates New "Outlook"
  • Update on MOX - Gov't and Utilities Set to Force Down Plan Without Public Consent
  • An Appeal from Scientists in Japan to the Scientists and Citizens of the World
  • Takagi School for Alternative Scientists Initiated
  • Data : Significant Incidents at Nuclear Plant
  • Anti-Nuke Who's Who - Kazumasa Yasumoto
  • Announcement : Workshop on Sustainable and Peaceful Energy Future in Asia '98
  • News Watch
NUKE INFO TOKYO No. 65 (May/June 1998)
  • India and Pakistan's Tests Show Need for Total Abolition of Nuc.Arms
  • Warning!-Plutonium Fuel Shipment May Come in February Next Year
  • Waste of Non-Japanese Origin to be Contained in Coming VHLW Shipment
  • Plans for Central Intermediate Storage Facilities for Spent Nuclear Fuel
  • MOX Utilization Plan - Developments in Fukui and Fukushima
  • Electric Utility Reorgnization - Move to Consider Only Short - Term Economic Benefit
  • Report on Health Conditions of Decontamination Workers at Chernobyl
  • News Watch
NUKE INFO TOKYO No. 64 (March/April 1998)
  • Tokai 1 Shutdow for Decommisioning - Legacy of Difficulties Waiting Ahead
  • VHLW Arrives Rokkasho - Unloading Stalled for Three Days Due to Local Resistance
  • Japan's HLW Disposal Plan
  • Japan's Plutonium Program for 1998
  • India and Pakistan - Making Nuclear Weapons from Nuclear Energy
  • Anti-Nuke Who's Who - Kaoru Sakurai - Renewable Energy Instead of Nuclear Energy
  • News Watch
NUKE INFO TOKYO No. 63 (Jan./Feb. 1998)
  • Can Japan Change? - Appeal for People's Participation in Energy Policy Making
  • Report on COP3
  • Japan's High Level Waste to Pass Panama Canal
  • Tokai Reprocessing Plant Accident: Final Report
  • The Right Livelihood Award Ceremony
  • Nuclear Developments in Asia- Part2: Thailand, Vietnam, and Malaysia
  • Report from Moscow- Changing Paradigms in Radiobiology (by Natalia Mironova)
  • Plutonium Glut Ever Increasing: STA Releases 1996 Pu Inventory Figures
  • DATA: Workers' Radiation Exposure at Nuclear Plants
  • News Watch

1997

NUKE INFO TOKYO No. 62 (Nov./Dec. 1997)
  • IMA(International MOX Assessment) Final Report - Conclusion
  • The 1997 Right Livelihood Award to be Presented to Jinzaburo Takagi
  • Plan for Third High-Level Waste Shipment Announced
  • FBR Development Lost in Cloud
  • Wither the Kyoto Conference?
  • News Watch
NUKE INFO TOKYO No. 61 (Sep./Oct. 1997)
  • NIT Enters Second Decade - A Step Toward Nuclear Free Future
  • Nuke Info Tokyo : A Beacon In The Nuclear Darkness - by Paul Leventhal (Nuclear Control Institute)
  • CNIC - Japanese Best Source of Nuclear Information - by Tom Clements (Greenpeace International)
  • Nuclear Power Development in Asia : Indonesia - Japan Plays Major Role
  • Yet Another PNC Flop - Massive Leak of Radioactive Substance Found at Tokai
  • CGEMA's( The Committee for General Evaluation of the Monju Accident) Final Report on Monju Accident
  • Agenda of the Citizens' International Conference for Sustainable and Peaceful Energy Future
  • Significant Incidents at Nuclear Plants (July to December 1996 )
  • News Watch

NUKE INFO TOKYO No. 60 (July/Aug. 1997)

  • Superphenix Shock - Japanese Plutonium Policy
  • Asian Nuclear Situation - China,Taiwan and Korean Peninsula
  • DATA : Incidents at N-plants
  • News Watch
NUKE INFO TOKYO No. 59 (May-June1997)
  • STA Begins Legal Action Against PNC
  • Anti-Nuke Groups Around Japan:Union of Ibaraki Anti-Nuke Power Movements
  • The Situation at Rokkasyo-Part 2
  • Replacement Shrouds for FUKUSHIMA 1
  • News Watch
NUKE INFO TOKYO No. 58 (March/April 1997)
  • Fire and Explosion at PNC's Facility
  • The Situation at Rokkasho Part 1
  • Japan's MOX Utilization Policy
  • Cracks in Fuel of Kashiwazaki 6
  • Taiwan is Going to Export Rad Waste
  • Anti-Nuke Who's Who: Mr. Ryoichi Sato: the Society Opposed to the Ohma NPP
  • News Watch
NUKE INFO TOKYO No. 57 (Jan./Feb. 1997)
  • Japan's Plutonium Policy
  • Japan's MOX Program / Pacific Against VHLW / Second VHLW Shipment
  • DATA: Asian Nuclear Facilities 1996
  • Problems of Aging Reactors
  • Opposition to U.S. MOX Program
  • News Watch

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