March 7, 2014. Audio recording (mp3) of NIRS’ Fukushima telebriefing March 6, 2014 featuring Aileen Mioko-Smith of Green Action in Japan, Arnie Gundersen of Fairewinds and Diane D’Arrigo of NIRS. Approx. 100 minutes.
TO THE PRIME MINISTER OF JAPAN: Petition to freeze the operation of the Rokkasho Nuclear Reprocessing Plant in order to stop the radioactive contamination of the ocean and air: Download PDF version (204 KB MB)
Press Release / Briefing Paper 9 May 2014 Contact: Aileen Mioko Smith cell: +81-90-3620-9251 email: amsmith@gol.com Will Japan Restart Nuclear Power Yet Again Ignoring Danger of Earthquakes? Osaka High Court Hands Down Verdict on Ohi Injunction Lawsuit Case, Reneges on Judicial Responsibility —Rules In Favor of Kansai Electric Japan—The Osaka High Court handed down a verdict today at 14:00 in favor of the defendant, Kansai Electric, in an appeals case brought by 253 citizens seeking an injunction to stop restart of the Ohi Units 3 and 4 nuclear reactors located along Wakasa Bay in Fukui Prefecture and owned and operated by the utility. Plaintiffs were from the central Japan…
Will Japan Repeat the Fukushima Disaster? Lawsuit* Verdict This Week May Provide Answer *Lawsuit seeking an injunction to shut down the only two nuclear power plants operating in Japan today, Kansai Electric’s Ohi Units 3 and 4 Media Briefing Paper For Immediate Release: 3 April 2013 Kyoto, Japan Contact: Aileen Mioko Smith +81-90-3620-9251 (co-lead plaintiff) Verdict to be Handed Down Early April The judgment in the legal case against the only two nuclear power plants operating currently in Japan, Ohi Nuclear Power Station Units 3 and 4 owned and operated by Kansai Electric Power Co., Inc. (KEPCO), is expected this week (4 April ~ 5 April.) It will be the…
PDF Download The government of Japan made a written and unequivocal pledge to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in December 1997 to uphold the “principle of no surplus plutonium.”*1 Despite this commitment, Japan will separate out 4 tons of plutonium at the Rokkasho reprocessing plant, if active testing using spent nuclear fuel begins as scheduled in February 2006. The stark fact is that the Japanese nuclear power program has no use for this plutonium, now or in the foreseeable future. The “Plutonium Utilization Plan of Japan” presented to the IAEA in 1997 stated that mixed plutonium-uranium oxide (MOX) fuel in light water reactors would be the “principle way of…
Green Action Press Release Japan Must Learn from the Lessons of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant Accident 11 March 2013 For immediate release Contact: Aileen Mioko Smith +81-90-3620-9251 150,000 people remain displaced as a result of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant accident which began on 11 March 2011, and the reality of this nuclear disaster is still reported daily in the news. In spite of this, on January 30th, the new Shinzo Abe administration announced that it would scrap the former government’s plans to phase out nuclear power during the 2030’s, and would deliberate on the issue “from scratch,” completely negating the public debate undertaken by the national…
A Change.org petition undertaken in 2018. http://chn.ge/2nvN5bC 4,612 signatures from 49 different countries signed this petition. See comments from around the world: Signatures were delivered to the governor of Kyoto Prefecture and mayor of Kyoto City. See photos of delivery: —– Help Kyoto fight Ohi restart! English language video (2018) https://youtu.be/di1BqYaOl8I