Why Japan wants more nuclear power after the Fukushima disaster | ABC News
Japan to increase nuclear power as new crises overshadow fears of Fukushima repeat
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Japan Should Terminate its Plutonium Fuel (MOX) Shipments from Europe to Japan and Cease Placing En Route Countries at Risk Download PDF (500KB) Japan’s Plutonium Program is Uneconomic, Unsafe, is a Detriment to Japan’s Energy Program, and Fosters Proliferation Japan Should Terminate its Plutonium Fuel (MOX) Shipments from Europe to Japan and Cease Placing En Route Countries at Risk 5 March 2009 APPEAL On March 6 2009, a shipment of approximately 1.7 metric tons of weapons-usable plutonium contained in 65 assemblies of MOX (mixed plutonium and uranium oxide) fuel is scheduled to depart the port of Cherbourg, France bound for Japan on British-flagged vessels. This will be the world’s largest…
Presentation by Aileen Mioko Smith, Executive Director, Green Action. An overview of the nuclear power situation in Japan, including information on public opinion polls.
May 23, 2009 Saga, Japan MOX Fuel Shipment Arrival Protest Genkai Nuclear Power Plant Citizens oppose arrival of Pacific Pintail and Pacific Heron carrying 20 assemblies of MOX fuel from France to Japan Photo Credit: Saga Hyakunen-no-Kai
Green Action has played a key role in addressing the problem of active earthquake faults under nuclear power plants in Japan.
Japan’s Nuclear Power Policy and the Noto PeninsulaMonday, February 19, 202414:00-15:00Language: English or Japanese with English interpretation Speakers:Susumu KITANOChief plaintiff / Shiga Nuclear Power Plant Must be Decommissioned! LawsuitFormer member of the Ishikawa Prefectural Assembly Shoko MURAKAMIChief Secretary for the Citizens’ Commission on Nuclear Energy (CCNE) Aileen Mioko SMITHExecutive Director, Green Action
Lessons the G8 Can Learn from Japan: the Nuclear Fuel Cycle is an Economic Failure Providing No Energy [Word Doc (US Letter size): 226kb] [Word Doc (A4 size): 234kb] For Immediate Release: 14 July 2006Contact: Philip White (CNIC) 03-5330-9520 Tokyo and Kyoto, Japan—-Japan has opportunistically jumped on President George Bush’s Global Nuclear Energy Partnership (GNEP) bandwagon in the hope of aiding its troubled nuclear fuel cycle program and gaining recognition for Japan’s unique position as the only Non Nuclear Weapons State (NNWS) member of the Non Proliferation Treaty with access to the full nuclear fuel cycle. It is difficult to imagine, however, that Japan could play a significant role in…