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Saga Citizens and Consumer Organizations Protest Arrival of MOX Fuel Shipment Japan Should Terminate MOX (plutonium and uranium) Fuel, and Rokkasho Reprocessing Programs For immediate release: May 23, 2009 Contact: Aileen Mioko Smith(Green Action) +81-90-3620-9251 Philip White (Citizens’ Nuclear Information Center) +81-3-3357-3800 May 23rd (Tokyo and Kyoto)—Today, at 6:45 am, amidst citizen protest, the British-flagged vessels the Pacific Pintail and Pacific Heron arrived at the port of Kyushu Electric’s Genkai Nuclear Power Plant and unloaded 20 assemblies of MOX fuel for Genkai Unit 3. The nuclear power plant is scheduled to be the first to use MOX fuel on a commercial scale in Japan. The plan is that the fuel …

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Japan Should Terminate MOX (plutonium and uranium) Fuel Program, Cease All Shipments from Europe Japan Should Terminate Fast Breeder Reactor and Reprocessing Programs For immediate release: May 18, 2009 Contact: Aileen Mioko Smith (Green Action) 090-3620-9251 Philip White (Citizens’ Nuclear Information Center) +81-3-3357-3800 “We call on the Japanese government and electric utilities to terminate this and future MOX fuel shipments and cease from placing en route countries at risk. We call on countries potentially on the route of future MOX fuel shipments to join us in demanding the termination of these dangerous shipments” stated BAN Hideyuki, secretary-general of Citizens’ Nuclear Information Center (CNIC), Aileen Mioko SMITH, executive director of Green …

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Japan’s Plutonium Program MOX Fuel Shipment 2009: Issues and Controversies MOX Fuel Shipment 2009: Issues and Controversies Presented to the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan by Aileen Mioko Smith (Executive Director of Green Action)Download PDF version (4.3 MB) Japan’s Failed Nuclear Fuel Cycle Japan’s Failed Nuclear Fuel Cycle Presented to the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan by Hideyuki Ban, Co-Director, Citizens’ Nuclear Information Center(CNIC)Download PDF version (270 KB) The text accompanying Hideyuki Ban’s presentation: Japan’s MOX Program and Nuclear Proliferation

Japan Should Terminate its Plutonium Fuel (MOX) Shipments from Europe to Japan and Cease Placing En Route Countries at Risk Download PDF (500KB) Japan’s Plutonium Program is Uneconomic, Unsafe, is a Detriment to Japan’s Energy Program, and Fosters Proliferation Japan Should Terminate its Plutonium Fuel (MOX) Shipments from Europe to Japan and Cease Placing En Route Countries at Risk 5 March 2009 APPEAL On March 6 2009, a shipment of approximately 1.7 metric tons of weapons-usable plutonium contained in 65 assemblies of MOX (mixed plutonium and uranium oxide) fuel is scheduled to depart the port of Cherbourg, France bound for Japan on British-flagged vessels. This will be the world’s largest …

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[PDF: 31k] 30 November 2006Dr. Mohamed ElBaradeiDirector GeneralInternational Atomic Energy Agency Dear Director General ElBaradei: We in the Japanese movement against nuclear weapons appreciate your tireless efforts against nuclear proliferation. We welcome you to Japan! We are writing you to call your attention to a statement made by the president of JNFL (Japan Nuclear Fuel Limited) about the “unrealistic” IAEA MOX fuel conversion concept and urge you to clarify the IAEA’s position on this issue. JFNL president Isami Kojima stated at the JNFL press conference in Aomori on the 24th of November that it is practically impossible to separate plutonium again from MOX fuel.*1 (This was in reference to the …

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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 …

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Fukushima Prefecture is currently carrying out a review of Japan’s national energy policy from the point of view of an energy producing prefecture. Since the December 1999 BNFL MOX data falsification scandal, governor Sato has refused to give his consent to the loading of MOX fuel into Tokyo Electric’s Fukushima Dai-ichi Unit 3 nuclear power plant. Tokyo Electric is seeking to load 32 MOX fuel assemblies during the current scheduled outage, but it is expected that Sato will continue to refuse implementation of the pluthermal program. Reported on June 4, 2002 The following comments were made by governor Sato at a meeting with regional mayors at the Fukushima Prefecture Office …

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Suspicions of Corrosion of Transport Cask and Transport Vessel It was reported in 29 June Fukui Newspaper that 8 MOX fuel assemblies with falsified quality control data could leave Takahama, Fukui Prefecture as early as 4 July 2002. However, there are suspicions about corrosion of the transport cask and corrosion of the steel plate tank tops of the transport vessel. An investigation by Tokyo Electric and Kansai Electric showed that metal corrosion led to the rising of the heat radiation fins on TN model transport casks currently stored in France. On 27 June, Japan’s Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport issued an official notification instructing the companies to refrain use …

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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 …

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Green Action and Mihama-no-Kai Petition Government and Kansai Electric to Investigate Return Shipment MOX Transport Cask for Possible Corrosion For immediate release: 14 June 2002 For more information contact: Aileen Mioko Smith or Stephen Ready Mobile: 090-3620-9251 Takahama, Fukui Prefecture, Japan—- Two Japanese citizen organizations, Green Action and Mihama-no-Kai, who were instrumental in December 1999 in successfully identifying the falsification of safety data for fuel fabricated at BNFL for Japan’s plutonium (MOX) program, joined local citizen groups in Takahama today to protest the arrival of the British-flagged vessel the Pacific Pintail into the port of Takahama. The ship arrived to drop off the transport cask that is scheduled to carry …

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