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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
[Translated from Japanese] [March 13, 2006] To: Mr. Toshihiro NikaiMinister of Economy, Trade and Industry As stated in the enclosed 9 March letter from Dr. Edwin Lyman (Union of Concerned Scientists) and Professor Frank von Hippel (Princeton University) to Aomori Governor Shingo Mimura, there are points that cannot be supported by facts in the explanation given by the Japanese Government to the six US Democratic members of Congress including Edward Markey, and to Aomori Prefecture. This concerns the international implications for nuclear proliferation of the Rokkasho reprocessing plant. I therefore request that you take the following action before beginning active tests at the plant: Provide a detailed technical account of…
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)
Read the letter to AREVA from Greenpeace Germany, Green Action Japan, Citizens’ Nuclear Information Center and others addressing safety concerns about AREVA’s plutonium MOX fuel produced for Japanese utilities
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.
Dangerous shipment of Japanese High Level Radioactive Waste Passing through the Caribbean and Panama 22 January 2010 (Kyoto, Japan) For immediate release: A shipment of 28 canisters of Japanese vitrified high level radioactive waste departed Sellafield, UK on 20 January aboard the Pacific Sandpiper bound for Japan. Japan Nuclear Fuels Ltd. (JNFL) reported today that the route of the 6-week voyage will be through the Panama Canal. The high level waste (HLW) has been produced by the reprocessing of spent reactor fuel from Japanese electric utilities. The Pacific Sandpiper is still operating despite having been built to the same design and construction standards as predecessor vessels decommissioned or scrapped following…