Japan’s Unsatisfying Nuclear Report via Bloomberg
… Yet for all its detail and willingness to label the Fukushima disaster as “profoundly manmade,” the report does not identify which men (and this being Japan, there probably weren’t many women)...
View ArticleJapan’s anti-nuclear protests The heat rises via The Economist
The restart of two nuclear reactors has belatedly lit a fuse under the Japanese … Recent reports into last year’s triple Fukushima meltdown 210km (130 miles) away have shown that the world’s most...
View ArticleJapanese Community Goes Solar, Wants No Nuclear via NTD Television
In the aftermath of the Fukushima nuclear crisis, residents of one small community are taking energy into their own hands. Just 50 miles from the controversial Ohi nuclear plant, a tiny 42-person...
View ArticleMOX Fuel Shipment Arrives In Japan For Takahama Nuclear Plant via NucNet
27 Jun (NucNet): The first shipment of mixed oxide (MOX) fuel to Japan since before the March 2011 accident at Fukushima-Daiichi has arrived at a port in Takahama, Fukui Prefecture, for delivery to the...
View ArticleProtestas en Japón por la llegada de un barco con combustible nuclear via NTN24
Decenas de manifestantes antinucleares protestaron este jueves contra la llegada a la central atómica de Takahama (centro del país) de un barco francés cargado de combustible para abastecer los...
View ArticleJCP increases its votes in NPP-dependent municipalities via Japan Press Weekly
In the Reinan Region (Fukui Prefecture), which has 15 nuclear reactors in two cities and four towns, the Japanese Communist Party calling for an immediate departure from nuclear power generation...
View ArticleJapan switches off last nuclear reactor via Aljazeera America
The move leaves Japan reliant on pricey fossil fuels to fill the gap left by the shutdown of all its atomic plants Japan has started the process of switching off its last working nuclear reactor for a...
View ArticleJapan court rules against nuclear restart in rare ruling via Reuters
(Reuters) – A Japanese court ruled against allowing the restart of a nuclear power plant west of Tokyo on Wednesday, its operator said, a rare case in which anti-nuclear plaintiffs have successfully...
View ArticleOPINION: Reflect on Fukui nuclear ruling via The Japan Times
[...] The ruling dismissed a similar argument by Kepco in court, noting that it is legally irrelevant to discuss people’s fundamental rights to life on the same level as the question of rising costs of...
View ArticlePress Briefing: Osaka High Court Hands Down Verdict on Ohi Injunction Lawsuit...
Will Japan Restart Nuclear Power Yet Again Ignoring Danger of Earthquakes? Osaka High Court Hands Down Verdict on Ohi Injunction Lawsuit Case, Reneges on Judicial Responsibility —Rules In Favor of...
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