Japanese Government’s Monju Decommissioning Team Decides to Transfer Spent...
The basic policy for Monju’s decommissioning—expected to take some three decades to complete—includes removing spent nuclear fuel from the reactor within a period of five and a half years since the...
View ArticleNew Data Obtained on Debris Locations Based on Temperature Changes Using...
The findings are consistent with the results of other analyses, namely, those finding that most debris at the Fukushima Daiichi-2 NPP is at the bottom of the reactor pressure vessel (RPV). The power...
View ArticleJapan’s NRA Approves Ikata-1 Decommissioning Plan
In the wake of the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi NPPs in March 2011, the operating lifetimes for NPPs in the country were limited in principle to forty years. Ikata-1 is the sixth NPP for which a...
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OECD/NEA Director-General Magwood Asks Japan to Boost International...
Earlier, on July 2 and 3, he had attended the 2nd International Forum on the Decommissioning of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plants in Fukushima Prefecture. At the JAEC meeting, Magwood...
View Article2017 Japan-IAEA Joint Nuclear Energy Management School Opens for Several...
In his opening message, President Akio Takahashi of the Japan Atomic Industrial Forum (JAIF)—who concurrently chairs the operating committee of the Japan Nuclear Human Resource Development Network...
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Entire Joban Train Line in Fukushima Prefecture to Be Reopened by March 2020
With the resumption of that section of the Joban Line, only one unusable section will remain, between Tomioka and Namie Stations (the latter in Namie Town). It lies in Futaba and Okuma Towns, where the...
View ArticleSubmersible Robot Finds Severe Damage Inside Unit 3 PCV
TEPCO also said that the power company had confirmed severe damage in several structures that had fallen. Within the range of that investigation, it could not identify any melted nuclear fuel debris,...
View ArticleNuclear Energy Experts from Japan and Taiwan Meet to Exchange Views on Plant...
Along with proposals and changes in Taiwanese energy policy, the participants discussed such issues as the decommissioning of nuclear power plants, studies and technological developments in the...
View ArticleJapan-India Nuclear Cooperation Agreement Comes into Force with Exchange of...
The agreement enables Japan to export nuclear technology, materials and equipment to India, which has not yet signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. At the same time, Japan—as the only country to...
View ArticleCabinet Approves Basic Concept on Nuclear Energy Use
As for basic targets, the Basic Concept describes the need to use nuclear energy in an appropriate manner by thoroughly managing risk under a responsible system. In citing the need to obtain public...
View ArticleFuel Debris at Fukushima Daiichi Unit 3 Apparently Located under Pressure...
The following day, July 22, operating the robot again, TEPCO said that it had identified rocky objects scattered around at the bottom of the PCV, which had likely melted and fallen from above. The...
View ArticleCommentary on Publication of National Map of Scientific Characteristics...
The map’s presentation is the first step on a long road that will eventually lead to the realization of the geological disposal of HLW. It does not, however, contain a determination of the site of...
View ArticleIEEJ Releases 2018 Economic and Energy Outlook: Pace of NPP Restarts Affects...
In FY18, although Japan’s economy will remain firm with growth exceeding one percent for four years in a row for the first time since FY03-FY07, primary energy consumption will decrease by 0.6 percent...
View ArticleJAIF President Comments on Meeting of Japanese and Taiwanese Nuclear Energy...
With Taiwan having decided to eliminate nuclear power by 2025, and with sixteen nuclear reactors in Japan already slated for decommissioning—including the advanced thermal reactor (ATR)...
View ArticleJapan’s Total Plutonium Holdings Decrease Thanks to NPP Restarts
Spent nuclear fuel from nuclear power plants in Japan is reprocessed, with the recovered plutonium then fabricated (i.e., recycled) into uranium-plutonium mixed oxide (MOX) fuel. The drop in total...
View ArticleDraft of New Technical Strategy for Fukushima Daiichi Released, Showing...
NDF President Hajimu Yamana proposed it as a new technical strategy plan to provide the technical basis necessary to realize the “mid-and-long-term roadmap” toward the NPPs’ decommissioning. The...
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EU Expected to Lift Import Restrictions on Fukushima Rice
On July 6, negotiations on the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) between Japan and the European Union (EU) came to a basic agreement. At a joint press conference with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, EU...
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ANRE Publishes “Map of Scientific Characteristics,” Moving One Step Closer to...
This is a new process in line with “activities with the national government at the fore,” expressed in the basic policy on final disposal that was revised in 2015. Specifically, the government has...
View ArticleThis Year’s Japan-IAEA Joint NEM School Ends with Signing of HRD Agreement
Opened on July 18 with thirty-five participants from seventeen countries around the world, the program included lectures, group discussions and technical tours of the Fukushima Daiichi and Daini...
View ArticleGovernmental Council to Start Activities This Fall Toward Realizing the...
On August 6, the Fukushima Restoration and Revitalization Council—consisting of representatives of the Japanese government, Fukushima Prefecture, municipalities in the prefecture, and local...
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