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May 23, 2009 Saga, Japan MOX Fuel Shipment Arrival Protest Genkai Nuclear Power Plant Citizens oppose arrival of Pacific Pintail and Pacific Heron carrying 20 assemblies of MOX fuel from France to Japan Photo Credit: Saga Hyakunen-no-Kai

[PDF: 584KB] Media Release7 September 2007 Chuetsu-Oki Earthquake – Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power PlantNGO’s demand the IAEA stop misleading the international community and TEPCO improve transparency NGOs today demanded that there be greater international accountability from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and that Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) improve its transparency surrounding the impact of the Chuetsu-Oki Earthquake on the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant. In a letter to the IAEA and TEPCO, Citizens’ Nuclear Information Center, Green Action, and Greenpeace Japan criticized the IAEA Expert Mission to the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant for making misleading statements about the impact of the earthquake on the plant1. They also criticized Philippe Jamet,…

Stop Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant in Aomori Japan — For Immediate Release: 25 April 2003 Contact: Aileen Mioko Smith Mobile: +81-90-3620-9251 On 25 April, Green Action and other Japanese citizen and consumer organizations issued an appeal to governments party to the Non-Proliferation Treaty asking them to urge Japan "not to go forward with separation of massive quantities of plutonium at the Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant." The Rokkasho plant (800 tons HM/year) is located in Aomori Prefecture, northern Japan and is scheduled to begin uranium commissioning this June according to Japan Nuclear Fuel Ltd (JNFL), owner/operator of the plant. Reprocessing is scheduled to start in 2005. The plant is capable of separating out…

Secret Plutonium Shipment Exposes Failure of Non Proliferation and Security Policy in Advance of Nuclear Security Summit and the Threat from Japanese Stockpiling Program Armed British transport ships expected to arrive Tokai port Sunday March 18th 2016  Tokyo…A shipment of weapons-grade plutonium scheduled to depart the port of Tokai, Ibaraki prefecture this coming weekend highlights the failure, but also the proliferation risks, of the current Japanese nuclear policy, a coalition of five non-governmental organizations warned today. A cargo of 331kg of plutonium will be loaded on to the Pacific Egret, an armed British nuclear transport ship, prior to departure under armed escort to the United States. It will be the largest…

14 May 2004 Mr Stephen Timms MPMinister for EnergyC/O The British EmbassyTokyo, JapanTel: 03-5211-1332Fax: 03-5211-1270 Dear Mr Timms We are Japanese citizens, consumer, professional and anti-nuclear organisations from Osaka, Kyoto, Aomori, the Tokyo and central Japan regions. We write to you concerning BNFL’s hopes of resurrecting business with Japanese electric utilities concerning MOX (mixed oxide) fuel use, this time at the Sellafield MOX Plant (SMP). Trust in BNFL has been destroyed in Japan. The December 1999 BNFL data falsification scandal is still very fresh in the minds of the Japanese public. In a recent Fukui legislative session, distrust concerning BNFL was raised yet again, and an important conservative Fukui legislator…

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…