32,000 join anti-nuclear power rally in Tokyo: organizers
Massive anti-nuclear power demonstrations drew tens of thousands of people near the Diet building and other locations in central Tokyo on March 9, with participants protesting against reactor restarts ahead of the third anniversary of (...)
TOKYO – Banging on drums and waving “Sayonara nukes” signs, thousands of people rallied in a Tokyo park and marched to Parliament Sunday to demand an end to nuclear power ahead of the third anniversary of the Fukushima disaster.
Participants at the demonstration, one of several planned across (...)
Radioactive water still a challenge three years after Fukushima disaster
Almost three years have passed since the outbreak of the Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant disaster, and we have yet to see the 30- to 40-year decommissioning process truly take off. Radioactive water continues to leak (...)
(Reuters) - Seiji Sasa hits the train station in this northern Japanese city before dawn most mornings to prowl for homeless men.
He isn’t a social worker. He’s a recruiter. The men in Sendai Station are potential laborers that Sasa can dispatch to contractors in Japan’s nuclear disaster zone for (...)
More than 800 join suit to seek suspension of Oi nuclear plant
KYOTO (Kyodo) — More than 800 people joined a lawsuit Tuesday filed last year by 1,100 plaintiffs from 17 prefectures demanding the central government and Kansai Electric Power Co. shut down the utility’s Oi nuclear power plant.
The (...)
Japan has no third-party oversight body for nuclear secrets
There has been no third-party body in Japan for nearly 15 months to check the validity of the designation by the central government and nuclear plant operators of information related to nuclear power facilities as secrets, it has been (...)
Toshiba warned over illegal working hours at Fukushima plant
FUKUSHIMA — A labor standards inspection office on Nov. 27 warned Toshiba Corp. and 17 other companies over workers illegally exceeding 10 hours of labor a day at the Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant, it has been learned. (...)
Fuel removal
Fuel removal starts at Fukushima Daiichi No. 4 spent fuel pool
TOKYO (Kyodo) — The operator of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station started a yearlong operation Monday to remove fuel from a pool at a damaged reactor building, in a move to address one of the major hazards (...)
Some 55 percent of Japanese agree with former Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi’s call for an end to nuclear power generation in Japan, a Mainichi opinion poll has found.
According to the survey conducted on Nov. 9-10, just 34 percent of those polled said they did not agree with abolishing (...)
TOKYO (Kyodo) — Former Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi urged current Japanese leader Shinzo Abe on Tuesday to make a decision to break away from nuclear power generation, saying that public opinion supportive of a nuclear-free country should not be underestimated.
“It’s a matter of judgment, or (...)
Networks nearly incapacitated as millions of messages flood in — Deluge of harassing emails angers anti-nuclear groups
Anti-nuclear activists expressed outrage Monday over cyberattacks involving a torrent of harassing emails that have nearly crippled their online activities.
Yasue Ashihara, a (...)
Ex-PM Koizumi’s ’zero nuclear’ remarks causing a stir among lawmakers, gov’t officials
Former Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi’s call for a “zero nuclear” policy has been causing a stir among lawmakers and top government officials.
The opposition camp has been buoyed by Koizumi’s recent remarks (...)
Nuclear refugees struggle to share Olympic joy
While Tokyo Municipal Government officials were rubbing their hands with glee after winning the right to host the 2020 Olympics following their failed attempt to win the 2016 Games, it’s perhaps fair to say that not everyone in other parts of the (...)
No-go zone cleanup way behind schedule
Radiation cleanup in some of the most contaminated towns around the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant is far behind schedule, so residents will have to wait a few more years before returning, officials said Monday.
Environment Ministry officials said they (...)
To: Shinzo Abe, Prime Minister of Japan Toshimitsu Motegi, Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry Shunichi Tanaka, Chairman, Nuclear Regulatory Authority (NRA)
Urgent international petition calling for immediate action on the uncontrolled radioactive discharges at Tepco’s Fukushima Nuclear (...)
IWAKI, Oct 25 (Reuters) - Tetsuya Hayashi went to Fukushima to take a job at ground zero of the worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl. He lasted less than two weeks.
Hayashi, 41, says he was recruited for a job monitoring the radiation exposure of workers leaving the plant in the summer of (...)
No. 1 water woes laid to Tepco’s ineptitude — Cleanup confounded by failure to foresee mess, accept advice
Two and a half years after the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant experienced its three reactor-core meltdowns, the effort to clean up what remains of the complex is turning into another kind of (...)
Thirty seconds into what may ultimately be regarded as one of the defining speeches of his career, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe slowly raised his hands chest high, then spread them out sideways in a gesture of confidence.
“Let me assure you,” he said, addressing members of the International Olympic (...)
40 00 people took to the streets to protest against nuclear plants and Prime Minister Abe in Tokyo on October 13. Kenji Kuntiomi from the Japan Revolutionary Communist League prepared this report for Socialist Review. Right-wing nationalist Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe claims radiation (...)
About 40 percent of Japanese nuclear plant equipment exported over the past decade — worth some 51.1 billion yen — failed to go through national government safety inspections, the Mainichi Shimbun has learned.
The government conducts safety inspections on nuclear plant equipment that is to be (...)
Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
Francais
RSS 2.0
Twitter
Facebook