NRA Approves Decommissioning Plans for Five NPPs
This marks the first instance that the NRA has approved plans for decommissioning since the so-called Reactor Regulation Law was revised to allow NPPs to operate for 40 years in principle. That...
View ArticleSecond Nuclear Fuel Facility Clears NRA’s Safety Examination
This means that the plant has essentially passed the examination—the second nuclear fuel facility to do so since the new standards took effect. The first was a fuel fabrication plant owned by Global...
View ArticleJAIF Annual Report: 439 NPPs Now Operating Worldwide, with a Capacity of 406GWe
Second Consecutive Yearly Record for Total Amount of Electricity Generated by NPPs As of January 1, 2017, there were 439 nuclear power plants operating worldwide, with 406GWe of capacity, representing...
View ArticleSaga Governor Agrees to Restarting Genkai-3 and -4 NPPs
With regulatory standards having been strengthened in the wake of the 3.11 earthquake, NPPs for which procedures to obtain local agreements have been completed are Sendai-1 and -2 (Kagoshima...
View ArticleJapan’s Dependence on Thermal Power Remains High Despite Restart of NPPs
The outlook for the summer will be finalized once discussions take place by the prime minister and others. They will also decide on measures for power supply and demand in the same period. After...
View ArticleTakahama-4 to Restart in May, First Such Case Following Court Ruling to...
If plans proceed as planned, it will be the first time the two units have operated in one year and three months. That would bring the total of domestic NPPs in operation to five, including Sendai-1 and...
View ArticleRevised NDF Bill Enacted after Passage by Upper House; TEPCO Required to...
The revised law requires the Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) to deposit funds each year toward the decommissioning of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plants, in anticipation that those costs will...
View ArticleNuclear Siting Municipalities’ Meeting Was Held in Tokyo
At the meeting, the members adopted a 75-item written request on various issues, including nuclear policy and siting area policy. Thereafter, a session was held for the heads of hosting municipalities...
View ArticleIncrease in Young Persons and Those Raising Children among Returnees to...
The number of residents now exceeds 1,600 for the first time since everyone in the town was evacuated after the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plants in March 2011. That represents...
View ArticleSecond Nuclear Fuel Facility Clears NRA’s Safety Examination Officially
This is the second nuclear fuel facility to be approved since the new standards took effect. The first was a fuel fabrication plant owned by Global Nuclear Fuel-Japan Co. (GNF-J), in Yokosuka City,...
View ArticleHirono Town Back to 79.1 Percent of Its Original Population
One factor that seems to have accelerated the return was the March 31 end, in principle, of a program of free evacuation housing for those who had left voluntarily—that is, people living outside the...
View ArticleTakahama-4 NPP is Restarted
A total of 157 nuclear fuel assemblies, including four MOX fuel assemblies, are loaded in the reactor, marking the first use of MOX fuel at Takahama-4. Kansai EP will resume commercial operation in...
View ArticleOhi-3 & -4 NPPs Clear Safety Examinations toward Restarts this Autumn
Kansai EP will still have to obtain approvals of construction work plans (detailed design approval), consents from the prefecture and local municipality, and more. It hopes to restart both units as...
View ArticleSubmersible Crawling Robot to Examine Interior of Fukushima Daiichi-3 PCV...
Starting two months ago, in March, a self-propelled robot has been used to investigate the interior of the primary containment vessel (PCV) of Unit 1 at Fukushima Daiichi—a necessary step before fuel...
View ArticleWhite Paper on Energy Policy for FY16: Decommissioning of Fukushima Daiichi...
The paper described recent circumstances and major energy measures in terms of three pillars: progress in Fukushima reconstruction, new developments in energy policy, and domestic and international...
View ArticleWelcoming Diet Approval of the India-Japan Civilian Nuclear Agreement
At JAIF’s annual conference last April, Chairman and Managing Director Satish Kumar Sharma of the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited (NPCIL) praised and expressed his high hopes for Japanese...
View ArticleScientists’ Feeling of Happiness, Relative to People’s Image of Fukushima
Sae Ochi, MD, MPH, PhD Lecturer, Department of Laboratory Medicine, The Jikei University Shchool of Medicine Attending Physician, Soma Central Hospital “I come from Soma City in Fukushima Prefecture.”...
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Fukui Governor Accepts Monju Decommissioning: Spent Nuclear Fuel to Leave...
At the meeting, the government explained to the relevant local parties how it intends to proceed with Monju’s decommissioning, along with the measures that it intends to put into place for regional...
View ArticleRecent White Paper Shows Recovery of Fukushima Fisheries Progressing Smoothly
In particular, the White Paper said that during the one-year period between February 2016 and January 2017, the ratio of fisheries landings to major local wholesale markets in Iwate, Miyagi and...
View ArticleSaga District Court Allows Two Genkai Reactors to Resume Operation
The two reactor units passed safety examinations by the Nuclear Regulation Authority of Japan (NRA) in January of this year. Two months ago, then, Saga Governor Yoshiaki Yamaguchi expressed his...
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