The real face of GNEP: Global Nuclear Energy Partnership

Lawsuits / Webinars / Submissions / Symposiums / Booklets / Leaflets / Protest Statements We recommend this Webinar if you are interested in finding out whether fast reactors and the nuclear fuel cycle have any valid role to play in solutions to climate change, and, if you want to find out whether these programs have nuclear proliferation concerns. Speakers include Allison Macfarlane, former Chairman of the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), and Frank von Hippel, one of the United States’ most prominent scientists in the nuclear policy arena.Green Action’s executive director addresses Japan’s nuclear fuel cycle program and its implications for the fast reactor program. VideoMarch 11, 2023US-Japan Nuclear Energy…

[Translated from Japanese] [March 13, 2006] METI officials responded along the following lines to the demands of Dr. Kang and five Japanese organizations. They promised to consider providing a written response to demands 1 through 3. Response to 1: Mr. Shinichi Mizumoto, Planning Officer (responsible for international nuclear energy issues), Nuclear Energy Policy Division, Agency for Natural Resources and Energy, METI: The MOX issue is only one aspect of the holistic measures which consist of safeguards, physical protection, etc. We object to it being taken up independently. Since precautions are taken to prevent theft, I cannot respond to the question regarding the different degree of concern between MOX and plutonium…

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

[English translation] Joint Statement Protesting: Nuclear Regulatory Authority’s Draft Approval of Sendai Nuclear Power Plant’s Conformation to New Nuclear Regulatory Standards 16 July 2014 Issued by: The Nuclear Regulation Authority Citizen Watchdog Group and 7 other organizations Today, the Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) issued a draft report on Kyushu Electric’s Sendai Nuclear Power Plant application for restart, stating the NRA’s review found the plant conforming to the New Regulatory Standards. We strongly protest this report. The NRA review to inspect conformation to the New Regulatory Standards does not learn from the lessons of Tokyo Electric’s Fukushima Daiichi accident, and, for the following reasons it is clearly evident that the situation…