The real face of GNEP: Global Nuclear Energy Partnership

March 7, 2014. Audio recording (mp3) of NIRS’ Fukushima telebriefing March 6, 2014 featuring Aileen Mioko-Smith of Green Action in Japan, Arnie Gundersen of Fairewinds and Diane D’Arrigo of NIRS. Approx. 100 minutes. http://www.nirs.org/fukushima/fukushimatelebriefing3614.mp3

Appeal from Citizens and Consumer Organizations in Central Japan to the G8 Environment Ministers Meeting Kobe, Japan, May 24-26, 2008 Download PDF (48 K)   Rokkasho, a massive commercial reprocessing plant for radioactive spent fuel, is about to start commercial operation this summer in Aomori Prefecture, northern Japan. The radioactive releases from Rokkasho into the Pacific Ocean would be illegal under the London Convention if disposal took place from a ship at sea. But a loophole in international law allows what would be illegal at sea, in the case of a land-based pipe extending into the ocean. Aerial releases of radioactive gases (krypton) from Rokkasho will also circulate around the…

2 June 2011 To: Foreign Media in Japan Japanese Utility Still Committed to New Nuclear Reactors Amid calls to halt all nuclear development in Japan, following the unprecedented disaster in Fukushima, Hiroshima-based utility Chugoku Electric is pushing ahead with a total of three new nuclear reactors in Matsue and Kaminoseki, the latter despite three decades of opposition by local island residents, and recent warnings on the need to safeguard biodiversity in Kaminoseki’s “Kiseki-no-Umi” – “Sea of Miracles.” Chugoku Electric Power Co. Inc. (head office, Hiroshima city) has a new reactor (No. 3) nearing completion at the Shimane Power Plant, close by Matsue city. Two more reactors are planned for the…

May 29, 2005 (Revised) WHAT IS MONJU Monju (280MW) is Japan’s prototype fast breeder reactor located at the tip of the Tsuruga Peninsula in Fukui Prefecture. On January 27, 2003, the Nagoya Court of Appeals (Kanazawa Branch) handed down a verdict in favor of Fukui citizens suing to stop the reactor from operating. The court found the license issued by the national government for Monju illegal due to serious deficiencies in the government’s safety review. On January 31, 2003, the national government appealed the decision. The Supreme Court verdict on Monju is to be handed down May 30, 2005 in Tokyo. Monju has been shut down since December 8, 1995…

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