Tag Archives: Rokkasho

Trial operation of Rokkasho furnace via World Nuclear News

Posted on 2013/01/22 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Trial production of vitrified waste at one of the two melting furnaces at the Rokkasho reprocessing plant has been successfully completed, Japan Nuclear Fuel Ltd (JNFL) announced. The company said that 30 batches of vitrified waste were produced from liquid … Continue reading →

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An open letter to President Obama: The time on the Doomsday Clock is five minutes to midnight via Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Posted on 2013/01/15 by yukimiyamotodepaul

An open letter to President Obama: The time on the Doomsday Clock is five minutes to midnight By Robert Socolow, Thomas Rosenbaum, Lawrence J. Korb, Lynn Eden, Rod Ewing, Alexander Glaser, James E. Hansen, Sivan Kartha, Edward “Rocky” Kolb , Lawrence … Continue reading →

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Japan’s Nuclear Mistake via The New York Times

Posted on 2012/11/29 by norma field

By FRANK N. VON HIPPEL and MASAFUMI TAKUBO THIS year has seen a lot of concern about the confrontation between China and Japan over a group of islets in the East China Sea. Less attention, though, is being paid to … Continue reading →

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Furnace malfunction hobbles Aomori spent nuke fuel reprocessing plant via The Mainichi Daily News

Posted on 2012/01/31 by norma field

AOMORI — A furnace malfunction at a nuclear fuel reprocessing plant here has stalled a planned trial run of the facility, throwing the future of Japan’s nuclear cycle policy into doubt. Yoshihiko Kawai, president of plant operator Japan Nuclear Fuel … Continue reading →

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Radiation 47 times higher than criteria detected from nuclear waste via The Mainichi Daily News

Posted on 2011/10/15 by norma field

FUKUOKA (Kyodo) — Radiation dosages 47 times higher than acceptance levels have been detected from vitrified radioactive waste at a storage facility in Rokkasho, Aomori Prefecture, Kyushu Electric Power Co. said Thursday. Up to 190 becquerels of both beta and … Continue reading →

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Mimura poised to win Aomori re-election bid via The Japan Times

Posted on 2011/06/05 by Tomomi Yamaguchi

AOMORI — Aomori Gov. Shingo Mimura was set to be re-elected to his third four-year term in Sunday’s gubernatorial election by defeating two challengers, according to Kyodo News projections. Mimura, 55, an independent backed by the conservative Liberal Democratic Party, … Continue reading →

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The Nuclear Disaster That Could Destroy Japan – On the danger of a killer earthquake in the Japanese Archipelago via Japan Focus

Posted on 2011/05/27 by Tomomi Yamaguchi

Hirose Takashi Translated and with an introduction by C. Douglas Lummis Translator’s note (Nuclear) Power Corrupts A puzzle for our time: how is it possible for a person to be smart enough to make plutonium, and dumb enough actually to … Continue reading →

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“Complicity and Victimhood: Director Kamanaka Hitomi’s Nuclear Warnings” on Japan Focus

Posted on 2011/05/03 by Masaki C.

Introduced and translated by Norma Field “They keep saying on television that it’s safe, there’s nothing to worry about. I regard this as criminal.” So Kamanaka Hitomi stated on a recent talk show. [“The harm caused by trace amounts of … Continue reading →

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“Japan: Rokkasho nuclear reprocessing plant fuels debate” on Global Voices

Posted on 2011/04/03 by Masaki C.

Like many other small towns in Japan, the village of Rokkasho (六ヶ所村) in Aomori prefecture, situated in the north of Japan’s main island Honshū and just south of its northernmost prefecture Hokkaido, hosts a nuclear facility. And like other nuclear … Continue reading →

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