Will Japan’s Nuclear Regulator Approve Plans to Restart Reactors Near Super Volcanoes?

Kyodo Wire Services 14 February 2005 20:34 NISA, the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency’s “Inquiry Committee on Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant Comprehensive Inspection” (Chairperson: Keiji KANDA) met on the 14th to begin its examination into the causes etc. of the faulty design of the High Level Vitrified Radioactive Waste Storage Facility’s cooling equipment. After the meeting Chairperson KANDA made clear his intention to instruct that a comprehensive inspection be undertaken on the design of all of JNFL’s nuclear fuel cycle facilities including the Reprocessing Plant and the Uranium Enrichment Plant. The results of the inspection is to be reported by JNFL to the committee at its meeting to be held the…

WE ALL SHARE OCEANS! Please help stop the radioactive contamination of the Pacific Hello, this is an urgent message from Japan. It was revealed that, as the result of the nuclear disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi Plant, 300 tons of radioactive waste water containing highly toxic substance such as cesium, strontium, tritium has been leaking in the sea every day. It is of absolute necessity to prevent the discharge of this contaminated water. The Japanese government says it will assign a prevention budget but it’s not until the next fiscal year. Plus the plan fails to stop groundwater from flowing into the power plant buildings and lacks fundamental preventative measures….

Radioactive Discharges into the Pacific from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant Site On 8 August, NGOs and Diet members held a meeting with the Japanese government concerning the radioactive discharges into the Pacific Ocean from the Fukushima Daiichi site. The meeting was held in Tokyo at the Upper House Diet Office Building. The government says it will assign a budget to deal with this problem, but it’s for the next fiscal year, plus, the countermeasures are grossly insufficient. What was revealed at yesterday’s meeting…. IT’S UNCLEAR WHO’S IN CHARGE AND WHO’S RESPONSIBLE IN THE JAPANESE GOVERNMENT: It became evident that it’s unclear which government entity is responsible for and…

Dangerous shipment of Japanese High-Level Radioactive Nuclear Waste Crossing Pacific Ocean on Defective Vessel 08 February 2010 (Kyoto, Japan) For more information contact: +81-90-3620-9251 (Smith) For immediate release: A shipment of 28 canisters of highly toxic Japanese vitrified high level radioactive waste departed Sellafield, UK on 20 January aboard the Pacific Sandpiper bound for Japan. The cargo is today passing through the Panama Canal and will be entering the Pacific Ocean momentarily. The high level waste (HLW) has been produced by the reprocessing of spent reactor fuel from Japanese electric utilities. It is the first of this kind of shipment from the UK. A press release issued 25 January by…