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A 23-page Green Action presentation prepared for the anti-GNEP (Global Nuclear Energy Partnership) tour organized by Public Citizen in Washington, D.C. (May 2007)
19 September 2002 Consultation Procedures for Citizens of Fukushima Prefecture and Others on the "Interim Report" Administrative OfficeEnergy Policy Review Purpose: A consultation is being undertaken to seek views on the "Interim Report" of this Energy Policy Review in order that the views of Fukushima Prefectural citizens etc. will be reflected in future energy policy [of this nation]. Who Can Submit: Citizens and organizations not limited to Fukushima Prefecture. How the "Interim Report" will be made public[Libraries, home page, through the media, etc.] Consultation Period: October 1 – November 30, 2002 Method of Submission: Mail, fax, email : energy-g@pref.fukushima.jp How Submissions Will Be Handled. Placed on home page Green ActionSuite…
Rokkasho. The name might not be well known outside of the anti-nuclear movement, but we hope it will become better known during the NPT Review Conference. Rokkasho is the site of a huge reprocessing plant being constructed on the northern tip of Honshu, the largest island in Japan. In December last year it began uranium trials (testing the processes using depleted uranium). Active trials using spent nuclear fuel are scheduled to begin in December this year and the plant is due to start operations in May 2007. It will then become the first commercial-scale reprocessing plant outside of the nuclear weapons states, extracting 8 tons of plutonium per year from…
https://chng.it/G9MCKn6Gpv Why this petition matters: For these reasons, we are preparing to send the following petition to both the World Bank and ADB. We ask for your support by adding your signature. We will submit all signatures and comments to the World Bank and ADB. 👉Let’s act together to prevent today’s decisions from burdening tomorrow’s generations. —— International Petition: “Say No to Nuclear Financing – World Bank and ADB, Why Turn Away from the Right Path?” To: Mr. Ajay Banga, President of the World Bank GroupTo: Mr. Masato Kanda, President of the Asian Development Bank We are deeply concerned that the World Bank Group and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) are moving…
Lessons of the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant Have Not Been Learned We Strongly Oppose the Restart of the Takahama Nuclear Power Plant Unit 3 Located in the Seismically Active Wakasa Bay Region of Japan 29 January 2016 Kyoto, Japan For immediate release. Contact: Aileen Mioko Smith +81-90-3620-9251 (amsmith@greenaction-japan.org) There are fifteen nuclear reactors located in the Wakasa Bay region of Fukui prefecture, one of the most seismically active areas among nuclear power plant sites in this earthquakeridden archipelago of Japan. Takahama Unit 3 is being allowed to restart by Japan’s Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) even though it does not meet NRA stardards for evaluating seismic motion, whereby the variations from…
[Translated from Japanese] [March 13, 2006] To: Mr. Toshihiro NikaiMinister of Economy, Trade and Industry As stated in the enclosed 9 March letter from Dr. Edwin Lyman (Union of Concerned Scientists) and Professor Frank von Hippel (Princeton University) to Aomori Governor Shingo Mimura, there are points that cannot be supported by facts in the explanation given by the Japanese Government to the six US Democratic members of Congress including Edward Markey, and to Aomori Prefecture. This concerns the international implications for nuclear proliferation of the Rokkasho reprocessing plant. I therefore request that you take the following action before beginning active tests at the plant: Provide a detailed technical account of…
Green Action has played a key role in addressing the problem of active earthquake faults under nuclear power plants in Japan.