The real face of GNEP: Global Nuclear Energy Partnership

Lawsuits / Webinars / Submissions / Symposiums / Booklets / Leaflets / Protest Statements Lawsuit to stop Ohi nuclear power plant (ongoing: Osaka Court of Appeals) This lawsuit is filed by 212 citizens against the Japanese government. Green Action director is co-chief plaintiff. The case is now in appellate court. (Photo: Osaka District Court, December 4, 2020. Day of Osaka District Court win. The verdict ruled that the government’s licenses for operating Kansai Electric’s Ohi Units 3 and 4 were illegal and revoked the licenses. Kansai Electric is the second largest electric utility in Japan and owner/operator of the greatest number of nuclear power plants. Download: Report（PDF）

We are organizations in Japan concerned with the proliferation of nuclear weapons. The Japanese people have in our collective memory the devastating effects of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. We are therefore seriously concerned with the current build-up in nuclear tensions in the Far East — the Korean Peninsula and Japan. This, more than anything, urges us to write to you today. Japan has a program to use massive quantities of plutonium for civil use. In spite of there being no demand for plutonium in Japan due to a standstill in the implementation of this program, Japan is going forward with preparations to operate a huge reprocessing plant capable of separating out…

Japan’s Nuclear Power Policy and the Noto PeninsulaMonday, February 19, 202414:00-15:00Language: English or Japanese with English interpretation Speakers:Susumu KITANOChief plaintiff / Shiga Nuclear Power Plant Must be Decommissioned! LawsuitFormer member of the Ishikawa Prefectural Assembly Shoko MURAKAMIChief Secretary for the Citizens’ Commission on Nuclear Energy (CCNE) Aileen Mioko SMITHExecutive Director, Green Action

Green Action (Japan) and Mihama-no-Kai Urgent Statement Concerning Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant Accident 23 March 2011 High Levels of Radiation Detected in Vegetables, Unprocessed Milk, Water, and Soil Unnecessary Radiation Exposure Imposed Due to Japanese Government’s Lack of Evacuation plan and “Declaration of Safety” Immediately evacuate infants and pre-school age children and pregnant women who are within the 20-30km radius (“stay indoors” zone) to locations farther from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant Extend the evacuation zone radically to avoid further exposure Discontinue the “declaration of safety” that states, “there is no immediate harm to human health”. This message is not properly transmitting the dangers of internal exposure and late–onset…

H.M.. Ambassador Stephen GomersallBritish Embassy in Japan1 Ichiban-cho,Chiyoda-ku Tokyo 〒102-8381 Japan 1 July 2002 Dear Ambassador Stephen Gomersall: On 14 June, a BNFL vessel from the United Kingdom arrived in Takahama to take back the “falsified data MOX fuel”. To us in Takahama, we feel as though this will break our hearts. The reason is, if the falsified MOX fuel is returned to the United Kingdom, it could result in further MOX fuel fabrication which could then lead to forced implementation of the pluthermal programme at the Takahama nuclear power plant, and as a result of BNFL fabricating new fuel, the Sellafield region will be, as in the past, forced…