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

From FCCJ’s site: Nakate, Aoki, Smith & Iwata, Voice of Fukushima Citizens http://www.fccj.or.jp/node/6874 Time: 2011 Sep 09 15:30 – 16:30 Summary: Press Conference Seiichi Nakate, Fukushima Network for Saving Children from Radiation Kazumasa Aoki, Citizens Against Fukushima Aging Nuclear Power Plants Aileen Mioko Smith, Green Action Wataru Iwata, Executive Director, Project 47 Excerpt: On Sept. 11-12, 30 radiation and health experts from 14 countries will gather in Fukushima Prefecture for a Nippon Foundation-sponsored symposium on the health risks faced by Fukushima residents. But the symposium has drawn fire from local residents who note Fukushima citizens will not be allowed to directly attend the proceedings, which are ostensibly being held for…

Environmental NGO Resolution Eighth International Energy Forum Osaka, Japan20 September 2002 Green Action Press Release and BriefingOn Eve of Return Shipment of Falsified BNFL MOX Fuel 3 July 2002 For immediate releaseContact: Aileen Mioko Smith or Stephen ReadyMobile 090-3620-9251 Kyoto, Japan – BNFL and Kansai Electric are in the final stages of preparation for loading 8 falsified MOX fuel assemblies onto the Pacific Pintail for a return shipment to the United Kingdom. The falsified MOX has already been loaded into the transport cask, and the cask is expected to be loaded onto the Pacific Pintail on 4 July 2002. Green Action’s message is: ‘BNFL never again in Japan! Japan’s plutonium…

As the nuclear crisis precipitated by the 2011 Great Eastern Earthquake unfolded, spewing radioactive material across northern Japan, Sachiko Sato of Fukushima sent her three children away to safety while she stayed behind. With clear information about fallout and radiation levels in short supply from the government, other families inside and outside the evacuation zones faced similar separation. Businesses continued as usual despite rising radiation levels, so parents, often fathers, were forced to stay at work as the wives and children left for Tokyo or western Japan. While Sato’s children worried about their classmates who remained in Fukushima, the Japanese government, rather than arrange for wider evacuation, raised the legal…

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….

Japan’s Two Operating Reactors won’t meet New Post-Fukushima Standards Will the Nuclear Regulation Authority Still Allow Them to Operate? For immediate release: 19 June 2013 Contact: Aileen Mioko Smith Kyoto, Japan—-The Nuclear Regulation Authority today approved new post-Fukushima regulatory standards. The standards will now be sent to the Cabinet for approval. They are scheduled to take effect on 8 July. Will the NRA ignore compliance with its new standards from day one by allowing the two currently operating nuclear reactors in Japan, Ohi Units 3 and 4 to continue to operate, thus setting the precedent for further non-compliance? At issue is whether Japan has learned the lessons of the Fukushima…

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…