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Deliberations Begin on Revisions to the Strategic Energy Plan
At the outset of the August 9 meeting of the Strategic Policy Committee—the first such meeting in a year and a half—METI Minister Hiroshige Seko said that it was not yet time to alter the framework of...
View ArticleNRA Approves Full Water-Shielding Wall at Fukushima Daiichi NPPs
This constitutes part of the “frozen-soil shielding wall” project, a major effort to deal with contaminated water by freezing more than 1,500 meters of soil around the units. TEPCO will begin freezing...
View ArticlePower Companies Request Pre-service Inspections Toward Restarting Reactors at...
On August 25, Genkai-3 received approval of its construction work plan (detailed design approval), after which Kyushu Electric Power applied for the pre-service inspection, to confirm that—when the...
View ArticleCabinet Office Releases Results of Study on Economic Scale of Radiation...
Calculating the market prices of products and services using radiation in such areas as industry, medicine, and agriculture, the study put the total at JPY4,369.8 billion (USD39.7 billion at USD1 =...
View ArticleRound Table Studying the Energy Situation toward 2050 Begins Deliberations
The roundtable’s objective is to hear opinions from a wide range of experts and specialists in pursuit of all feasible options for meeting Japan’s national goal of reducing its GHG emissions by eighty...
View ArticleStrongly Protest Nuclear Test by North Korea
The largest nuclear test ever conducted by North Korea is an outrage in disregard of resolutions by the United Nations Security Council and presents a grave threat to world peace and security. The...
View ArticleGovernment Team Releases Draft Revisions to Mid-to-Long-Term Decommissioning...
The last revision to the roadmap had been in June 2015. There will be no changes to the framework of the decommissioning work overall, which is to be accomplished three to four decades after Step 2 in...
View ArticleMOX Fuel Arrives at Kansai EP’s Takahama-4 NPP
It was the second time that MOX fuel has arrived in Japan from overseas since the March 2011 accident at the Fukushima Daiichi NPPs. The first had been in June 2013, for use at Takahama-3 (PWR,...
View ArticleNRA to Expand Application Period for Examinations to Extend Lifetimes of...
Currently, the period for applying for such an examination is a narrow three-month window: specifically, the final three months of a reactor’s thirty-eighth year of operation. The start of the...
View ArticleMETI Minister Explains Fuel Cycle Promotion Policy to Aomori Governor
It was the first time for the minister to visit Aomori Prefecture since assuming his current post. The prefecture is the site of integrated nuclear power plants and facilities for recycling nuclear...
View ArticleResponsibility for Explaining the Unknowable
Sae Ochi, M.D., M.P.H., Ph.D. Lecturer, Department of Laboratory Medicine, The Jikei University School of Medicine Attending Physician, Soma Central Hospital On September 15, those were the top two...
View ArticleRevisions to Fukushima Daiichi Decommissioning Roadmap Delay Removal of Spent...
Based on a draft released on September 1 by the Japanese government’s core team dealing with the decommissioning, the revisions were finalized at the inter-ministerial council for contaminated water...
View ArticleKashiwazaki Kariwa-6 & -7 Effectively Clear Safety Examinations, But May Not...
It was the conclusion of the drafts that both reactors meet the country’s new regulatory standards. The NRA has now begun deliberations toward finalizing the reports, and the final documents are...
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Status of Class Action Lawsuits Filed by Evacuees after Fukushima Daiichi...
Class action lawsuits So far, 28 class action lawsuits have been filed at 20 district courts and branches: Sapporo, Sendai, Fukushima (4 cases), Fukushima Koriyama Branch (2), Fukushima Iwaki Branch...
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JAIF “Delivers” Lectures to Students Concerning Solutions to HLW Disposal Issues
JAIF, in its demae (“delivery”) lecture program, dispatches lecturers to various educational institutions to explain such subjects as energy businesses in Japan, environmental preservation, and...
View ArticleKashiwazaki Kariwa 6&7 Become First BWRs to Clear Safety Examinations as NRA...
In the examinations of Units 6 and 7 at Kashiwazaki Kariwa, applications for which were filed in September 2013, there was difficulty in determining standard ground motion (Ss). In addition, there was...
View ArticleJAEC Explains Japan’s Utilization of Plutonium to the Country and the World
The document was drawn up and issued publicly out of the need to further explain appropriately the Japanese government’s policy on managing plutonium, given increasing international concerns over such...
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JAIF-KAIF Industry Seminar Shares Knowledge and /Information in...
Starting this time, the two organizations agreed to more narrowly focus the seminar’s themes on issues common to both countries, enabling the participants to have deeper discussions and share...
View ArticleTasks for the Japanese Nuclear Industry as South Korea and Taiwan Retreat...
Similarly, in Taiwan, the Tsai Ing-wen government enacted a revised law in January stipulating the elimination of nuclear power by 2025. The industry there has asked the government to review its energy...
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Medical Group in Fukushima Emphasizes Importance of Understanding Multiple Risks
Risks stemming from diabetes (a lifestyle disease) were compared with the risk of cancer caused by radiation exposure using the measure “loss of life expectancy” (LLE)—that is, how much average life...
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