NGOs Urge World Bank and ADB: “No Nuclear Financing”

Rokkasho. The name might not be well known outside of the anti-nuclear movement, but we hope it will become better known during the NPT Review Conference. Rokkasho is the site of a huge reprocessing plant being constructed on the northern tip of Honshu, the largest island in Japan. In December last year it began uranium trials (testing the processes using depleted uranium). Active trials using spent nuclear fuel are scheduled to begin in December this year and the plant is due to start operations in May 2007. It will then become the first commercial-scale reprocessing plant outside of the nuclear weapons states, extracting 8 tons of plutonium per year from…

October 31, 2011 Opposing Japan-Vietnam Nuclear Cooperation Agreement in Promotion of Nuclear Export ~What must be exported instead is learning from Fukushima experience and not life-threatening nuclear power plants~ While Fukushima nuclear accident is yet to be brought under control, the fallout of radioactive material continues to contaminate the earth, nature and sea of Japan. Countless number of people including those in Fukushima is suffering from the crisis and devastation of their lives. And yet, the causes of the accident have not been fully investigated. At the moment, Japan-Vietnam nuclear cooperation agreement is being signed to take another steps further to promote Japan’s nuclear export. Presently in Vietnam, Japanese taxpayer-funded…

Environmental NGO Resolution Eighth International Energy Forum Osaka, Japan20 September 2002 The 20th century was the fossil fuel century. To the middle of the century, most energy came from coal, and after the 1960’s the use of oil increased rapidly. Today’s worldwide consumption in energy continues to be dependent on fossil fuels, predominantly oil. These precious fossil fuels have contributed to the development of humanity, easing the burden of daily life. At the same time however, dependence on fossil fuels has caused or contributed to further aggravating the unequal distribution of the world’s wealth, energy wars or civil wars related to energy access, serious environmental destruction as a result of…

H.M.. Ambassador Stephen GomersallBritish Embassy in Japan1 Ichiban-cho,Chiyoda-ku Tokyo 〒102-8381 Japan 1 July 2002 Dear Ambassador Stephen Gomersall: On 14 June, a BNFL vessel from the United Kingdom arrived in Takahama to take back the “falsified data MOX fuel”. To us in Takahama, we feel as though this will break our hearts. The reason is, if the falsified MOX fuel is returned to the United Kingdom, it could result in further MOX fuel fabrication which could then lead to forced implementation of the pluthermal programme at the Takahama nuclear power plant, and as a result of BNFL fabricating new fuel, the Sellafield region will be, as in the past, forced…

Radioactive Discharges into the Pacific from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant Site On 8 August, NGOs and Diet members held a meeting with the Japanese government concerning the radioactive discharges into the Pacific Ocean from the Fukushima Daiichi site. The meeting was held in Tokyo at the Upper House Diet Office Building. The government says it will assign a budget to deal with this problem, but it’s for the next fiscal year, plus, the countermeasures are grossly insufficient. What was revealed at yesterday’s meeting…. IT’S UNCLEAR WHO’S IN CHARGE AND WHO’S RESPONSIBLE IN THE JAPANESE GOVERNMENT: It became evident that it’s unclear which government entity is responsible for and…