Author: Rick E

30 June 2010 STATEMENT We Protest MOX Fuel Arrival at Takahama Nuclear Power Plant Units 3 and 4 To Makoto YAGI, President of Kansai Electric Issued by: Green Action (Kyoto, Japan) and Mihama-no-Kai (Osaka, Japan) For immediate release. Contact: +81-90-3620-9251 (Smith) Today, 30 June, Kansai Electric, ignoring the many voices of protest, brought MOX (mixed oxide) fuel into the Takahama Nuclear Power Plant Unit 3 and Unit 4. Many countries around the world have expressed their concern and protest against the numerous Japanese plutonium shipments from France. However, Kansai Electric, totally ignored these voices of concern, forced through this shipment. We strongly protest this shipment and the arrival of MOX…

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Dangerous shipment of Japanese High-Level Radioactive Nuclear Waste Crossing Pacific Ocean on Defective Vessel 08 February 2010 (Kyoto, Japan) For more information contact: +81-90-3620-9251 (Smith) For immediate release: A shipment of 28 canisters of highly toxic Japanese vitrified high level radioactive waste departed Sellafield, UK on 20 January aboard the Pacific Sandpiper bound for Japan. The cargo is today passing through the Panama Canal and will be entering the Pacific Ocean momentarily. The high level waste (HLW) has been produced by the reprocessing of spent reactor fuel from Japanese electric utilities. It is the first of this kind of shipment from the UK. A press release issued 25 January by…

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…

Japan’s Troubled Plutonium Program Genkai Nuclear Power Plant Starts MOX Fuel Use 460,000 Citizens Demand Suspension Round-the-Clock Sit-In Begins 5 November 2009 PRESS RELEASE For immediate release Contact: Aileen Mioko Smith—–cell: +81-90-3620-9251 Kyoto, Japan—Japan’s beleaguered “pluthernal” program, MOX (mixed plutonium-uranium oxide) fuel use in commercial power plants, got off to a troubled start at Kyushu Electric’s Genkai Unit 3 Nuclear Power Plant Unit 3 in Saga Prefecture today with the use of 16 MOX fuel assemblies. Full-time opera-tion of the reactor is scheduled to begin December 2nd. A round-the-clock sit-in began this morning in front of Kyushu Electric headquarters in Fukuoka City and messages of support are pouring in from…

Japan’s Worst Pollution Disaster MINAMATA DISEASE:　Mercury poisoning from industrial waste Will Prime Minister Taro Aso’s Government Ram Through Bill Shutting off Relief for Minamata Disease Victims? For immediate release: 29 June 2009 Contact: Aileen Mioko Smith Cell: +81-75-701-7223 (Press conference in Japanese at 16:00 today in Nagata-cho area. Location to be determined.) Tokyo, Japan—-A delegation of wheelchair-bound congenital Minamata disease victims is arriving in Tokyo this morning seeking a meeting with Yukio Hatoyama and the Minshuto (Democratic Party of Japan) leadership in a last minute effort to halt passage of a Minamata disease bill which will have devastating effects on relief for victims. It was reported in the media yesterday…