IAEA’s Response to Green Action’s Joint Open Letter to Director General Mohamed ElBaradei

Frédéric Patalagoity, President and Managing Director AREVA Japan Urban Toranomon, Bldg. 5F 1-16-4 Toranomon, Minato-ku Tokyo 105-0001 Japan July 21, 2016 Dear Frédéric Patalagoity, We are writing to you to express our disappointment and concerns over the use of AREVA produced MOX fuel in Japanese nuclear power plants. As you know we wrote to you on January 28th of this year to request details over the quality of plutonium mixed oxide fuel supplied to Japan, specifically Kansai Electric. We have yet to receive a response to this letter (also attached to this letter). As you will be aware the Ikata 3 reactor is due to restart operations shortly. Sixteen assemblies…

Press Release August 11, 2010 Beware of Investing in New US Nukes Visiting Expert Warns Japanese Government Tuesday, August 11 (Tokyo): US nuclear expert Kevin Kamps, who is currently visiting Japan, today sent a letter to the Japanese Government warning them to carefully consider the very serious financial risks of investing in new atomic reactors in the United States. The letter, which was endorsed by over 70 US NGOs, was addressed to Prime Minister Naoto Kan, Minister of Finance Yoshihiko Noda and Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry Masayuki Naoshima. Kamps is a member of US NGO Beyond Nuclear. He campaigns on a wide range of nuclear issues, including radioactive…

[PDF: 28KB] 7 September 2007Mr. Tsunehisa KatsumataPresidentTokyo Electric Power Company Request for English Translations Dear Mr. Katsumata, We are writing to request full English translations of TEPCO’s reports on the impact of the 16 July 2007 ChuetsuOki Earthquake on the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant. The limited English information which your company has published on its web site is welcome, but much more is necessary to enable non-English speakers to understand the behavior of the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant during the Chuetsu-Oki Earthquake. Citizens’ Nuclear Information Center contacted your company to find out if it intended to translate its 10 August 2007 report1 into English. The report contained key information that…

March 9, 2006Governor Shingo MimuraGovernor’s Office 1-1-1 Nagashima, Aomori CityAomori Prefecture 030-8570 Japan Dear Governor Mimura, We are writing to you to express our concerns about the complacency that seems to exist in Japan regarding the threat posed by the Rokkasho reprocessing plant to international efforts to limit nuclear proliferation. If you give your approval, this plant in your prefecture may start active testing as early as the end of this month — a test that will ultimately separate over 4 tons of plutonium from spent fuel, enough to make more than 500 Nagasaki-type bombs. One example of this complacency can be observed in the February 14 letter sent by…

[PDF Version: 1.4MB] The IAEA Team of International Experts Investigating the Effects of the Chuetsu Oki Earthquake on the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Station in Niigata, Japan Director General Mohamed ElBaradei, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) From: Citizens’ Nuclear Information Center (Tokyo, Japan) Greenpeace Japan (Tokyo) Green Action (Kyoto) 6 August 2007 To Director General Mohamed ElBaradei and the IAEA Investigation Team: We hereby respectfully make the following four requests: We request that you commission a truly independent international (including Japanese) investigation team with rigorous and objective expertise to look into the effects of the Chuetsu Oki Earthquake on the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Station. Given the shifting seismic cycle with a…

Letters sent to countries potentially on the route of the MOX fuel shipment This is a follow-up letter to the letter we sent you on 5 March concerning an imminent plutonium shipment (MOX fuel) from France to Japan that may pass by your country. The Japanese electric utility Kansai Electric announced in a press release yesterday, 21 March, that it plans to ship MOX fuel from France to Japan. They did not disclose the date. This Kansai Electric press release and the French company AREVA’s announcement on 20 March confirm that the shipment is indeed imminent. Our information continues to be that the British flagged transport vessels Pacific Heron and…