Citizens living up to 70 km (45 mi.) away sued Kansai Electric and won.
We want to protect Kyoto’s cultural heritage from radioactive contamination.
We want to protect the lagest lake in Japan, Lake Biwa, the water for 14 million people.
For immediate release: April 9, 2002 For further information contact: Aileen Mioko Smith 090-3620-9251, or Stephen Ready Kyoto, Japan–The Japanese Nuclear Safety Commission (NSC) in its 2001 White Paper reaches the conclusion that use of plutonium at Japanese nuclear power plants is safe. However, the NSC’s has a poor record when it comes to declaring there is no problem with Japan’s MOX program. In 1999 when citizen organizations submitted evidence to the NSC that MOX fuel manufactured by the British company BNFL for Kansai Electric had falsified quality control data, the NSC failed to address the issue. Citizens filed an injunction against use of the fuel and were subsequently proven…
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…
https://chng.it/G9MCKn6Gpv Why this petition matters: For these reasons, we are preparing to send the following petition to both the World Bank and ADB. We ask for your support by adding your signature. We will submit all signatures and comments to the World Bank and ADB. 👉Let’s act together to prevent today’s decisions from burdening tomorrow’s generations. —— International Petition: “Say No to Nuclear Financing – World Bank and ADB, Why Turn Away from the Right Path?” To: Mr. Ajay Banga, President of the World Bank GroupTo: Mr. Masato Kanda, President of the Asian Development Bank We are deeply concerned that the World Bank Group and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) are moving…
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…
Third Anniversary of the 3.11 Great East Japan Earthquake Those Responsible for the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant Accident Not Held Accountable Japanese government pushing for restart of nuclear power Press Release For immediate release For further information contact: Aileen Mioko Smith +81-90-3620-9251 amsmith@gol.com 11 March 2014 (Kyoto, Japan) No One Held Criminally Responsible for Man-Made Accident Three years into the Fukushima nuclear power plant accident, not a single individual has been held criminally responsible for the disaster. This is in spite of the fact NAIIC (The National Diet of Japan Fukushima Nuclear Accident Independent Investigation Commission) stated on 5 July 2012 in its final report that, “The TEPCO Fukushima…
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