Nuke Info Tokyo No.223 (November/December 2024)

Nuke Info Tokyo is a bi-monthly newsletter that aims to provide English speaking friends with up-to-date information on the Japanese nuclear industry and the movements against it. 


Contaminated soil mound in the intermediate storage facility in the process of leveling in December 2022 (right foreground)

Editor: Takakuwa Mayu

Translators: Pat Ormsby, Tony Boys, Nishioka Mayumi

Proofreaders: Tony Boys, Yamaguchi Yukio

Contents:

Subcommittee on Specified Radioactive Waste Reports Nos.9 & 10 – Discussions End on the Draft Literature Survey Report and the Review of the Communication Gatherings By Takano Satoshi

Is it Possible for Citizens to Engage in Dialog with the Ministry of the Environment as it Promotes the Recycling of Soil Contaminated by Radioactivity? By Fuseya Yumiko

Reference Material: Japan’s Separated Plutonium Inventory (as of Dec.31,2003) By Matsukubo Hajime

Reference Material: Workers’ Exposure Data (FY2023) By Tanimura Nobuko

Reference Material: Main Accidents and Breakdowns Occurring at Nuclear Power Plants and Nuclear Fuel-Related Facilities (FY2023) By Kamisawa Chihiro

News Watch  Onagawa Unit 2 Shut Down During Restart Due to Problems/ Experimental Debris Retrieval from Fukushima Daiichi Unit 2 Reactor/ Takahama Unit 1 Operation to Exceed 50 Years/ Mutsu Spent Fuel Storage Facility Begins Operations/ Equivalent Exchange Proposed for Low-Level Waste Returned from France

Who’s Who: Mukohara Yoshitaka – A Person Having Both Feet Firmly on the Ground By Somatani Kenta

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