Join us in celebrating our 25th anniversary. Green Action, based at Demachiyanagi in Kyoto, was founded in November 1991. We thank everyone who has supported us over the years, and welcome those who would like to meet Green Action for the first time.
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
9/30 Impact Hub Kyoto An Evening with “To The Village Square” photographer Lionel Delevingne Slide Presentation and Conversation Admission Free All Welcome! Friday, September 30th 7pm 〜 9pm Impact Hub Kyoto Nishijin IT ro-ji building 97 Kainokamicho, Kamigyo Ward, Kyoto Phone: 075-417-0115 (Just west of Aburanokoji and Nakadachiuri intersection.) Enter from the gate at west side of building next to pay phone. English / Japanese interpreting. No reservation required. Admission Free Download English flyer here: http://greenaction-japan.org/internal/160930_flier-en.pdf Japanese flyer: http://greenaction-japan.org/internal/160930_flier-jp.pdf
Plutonium Shipment to Depart Japan for United States – Exposes Failure Of Global Reprocessing Programs March 22nd 2016, Tokyo…The shipment of weapons-grade plutonium at the port of Tokai, Ibaraki prefecture departing later today, exposes the failure of global plutonium reprocessing programs and the threat from current Japanese nuclear policy, five non-governmental organizations charged today.(1) The cargo of 331kg of plutonium was loaded on to the Pacific Egret, an armed British nuclear transport ship, after it arrived at Tokai at 08.00 March 21st. Armed Japanese coastguard vessels, including the Shikishima, are outside the port and are expected to escort the plutonium shipment while inside Japanese coastal waters. The shipment is being…
Secret Plutonium Shipment Exposes Failure of Non Proliferation and Security Policy in Advance of Nuclear Security Summit and the Threat from Japanese Stockpiling Program Armed British transport ships expected to arrive Tokai port Sunday March 18th 2016 Tokyo…A shipment of weapons-grade plutonium scheduled to depart the port of Tokai, Ibaraki prefecture this coming weekend highlights the failure, but also the proliferation risks, of the current Japanese nuclear policy, a coalition of five non-governmental organizations warned today. A cargo of 331kg of plutonium will be loaded on to the Pacific Egret, an armed British nuclear transport ship, prior to departure under armed escort to the United States. It will be the largest…
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.
Lessons of the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant Have Not Been Learned We Strongly Oppose the Restart of the Takahama Nuclear Power Plant Unit 3 Located in the Seismically Active Wakasa Bay Region of Japan 29 January 2016 Kyoto, Japan For immediate release. Contact: Aileen Mioko Smith +81-90-3620-9251 (amsmith@greenaction-japan.org) There are fifteen nuclear reactors located in the Wakasa Bay region of Fukui prefecture, one of the most seismically active areas among nuclear power plant sites in this earthquakeridden archipelago of Japan. Takahama Unit 3 is being allowed to restart by Japan’s Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) even though it does not meet NRA stardards for evaluating seismic motion, whereby the variations from…
Japan’s Nuclear Regulator: We don’t know if Takahama Reactor has significant fire safety violation Reactor due to start January 29th January 26, 2016, Tokyo –Greenpeace and Green Action today condemned the failure of the NRA to verify that critically important electric cabling inside the Takahama reactors meet the agency’s own fire safety regulations. At a meeting held in the National Diet on January 21st, representatives of the NRA admitted under questioning from citizens and NGOs, that they simply do not know whether Takahama 3&4 reactors are in violation.(1) Kansai Electric plans to restart Takahama 3, located on Wakasa Bay in Fukui prefecture, on January 29th. The safety-related cabling in a…
Presentation by Aileen Mioko Smith, Executive Director, Green Action. An overview of the nuclear power situation in Japan, including information on public opinion polls.
–Background Briefing– Why the Sendai Nuclear Power Plant Should Not be Operated [Revised] 11 August 2015 (1:00pm) For immediate release from Sendai nuclear power plant gate, Kagoshima Prefecture. Aileen Mioko Smith Executive Director, Green Action (Japan) Contact: amsmith@gol.com / +81-90-3620-9251 Lack of Consideration of Potential Earthquakes Damage—In Violation of NRA Regulations Seismologist and emeritus professor of Kobe University, Member of the Diet NAIIC (National Diet of Japan Fukushima Nuclear Accident Independent Investigation Commission), has stated that the Nuclear Regulation Authority’s Review of the Sendai Nuclear Power Plant is “careless and faulty and will invite a second Genpatsu-Shinsai (Earthquake-Nuclear Combined Disaster)”. Ishibashi points out that the NRA’s Review violates the legal…