Tag Archives: the Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA)

Regulators to review Fukushima Daiichi plant work via NHK World Japan

Posted on 2019/10/30 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Japan’s nuclear regulators plan to look into work management at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, which is being decommissioned following the 2011 accident. The move follows a series of mistakes and violations. In June this year, smoke came out … Continue reading →

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Nuclear regulators keep ban on Monju reactor via NHK World

Posted on 2016/08/18 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Japan’s nuclear regulator has dismissed a plea to lift its order banning the operation of an experimental reactor in Fukui Prefecture. The Nuclear Regulation Authority in 2013 ordered the Japan Atomic Energy Agency, which operates the prototype Monju fast breeder … Continue reading →

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Japan’s Monju reactor a costly hot potato no one wants to handle via The Japan Times

Posted on 2016/06/05 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Japan is missing its own deadline to find a new operator for a prototype nuclear power program that has failed to succeed in the two decades since it was built, threatening the resource-poor country’s support of a technology other nations … Continue reading →

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Low-level nuclear waste to be buried 70 meters underground: NRA via Mainichi

Posted on 2016/05/26 by yukimiyamotodepaul

A portion of low-level nuclear waste generated by nuclear reactors is to be buried at a depth of 70 meters underground until it is nearly no longer radioactive some 100,000 years from now, the Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) said on … Continue reading →

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Is it safe to dump Fukushima waste into the sea? via The Guardian

Posted on 2016/05/12 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Japan has called for hundreds of thousands tonnes of irradiated water from the nuclear plant to be released into the Pacific Ocean. Karl Mathiesen looks at the potential impacts More than 1,000 tanks brimming with irradiated water stand inland from … Continue reading →

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Nuclear regulator accepts that fault below Ishikawa reactor is active via The Mainichi

Posted on 2016/04/27 by yukimiyamotodepaul

TOKYO (Kyodo) — The nuclear safety body said Wednesday that it accepted the conclusion by geological experts that a fault below a reactor at Hokuriku Electric Power Co.’s Shika nuclear plant in central Japan may be active, a decision that … Continue reading →

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Despite assurances, quakes prompt calls to switch off Japan’s nuclear reactors via The Japan Times

Posted on 2016/04/19 by yukimiyamotodepaul

OSAKA – Despite official assurances of no abnormalities at nuclear power plants in Kyushu and nearby areas after a series of earthquakes rocked the region, calls in and outside of Japan are growing to shut down the nation’s only two … Continue reading →

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Nuclear regulator sees no need to halt reactors despite quake concerns via The Mainichi

Posted on 2016/04/18 by yukimiyamotodepaul

TOKYO (Kyodo) — The chairman of the Nuclear Regulation Authority said Monday the safety watchdog has no plan to halt operating nuclear reactors in southwestern Japan despite concerns about a recent wave of earthquakes hitting the neighboring region, as there … Continue reading →

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Tepco finishes installing Fukushima ice shield equipment via The Japan Times

Posted on 2016/02/10 by yukimiyamotodepaul

[…] Frozen soil would act as a barrier to prevent fresh groundwater from running beneath the buildings and picking up radioactive particles. A total of 1,568 pipes have been dug into the ground. They will carry a refrigerant liquid chilled … Continue reading →

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IAEA starts review of Japan’s nuclear regulator via NHK World

Posted on 2016/01/11 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Experts from the International Atomic Energy Agency have begun their first review of Japan’s nuclear regulator since it was set up after the Fukushima nuclear disaster in 2011. Team leader Philippe Jamet told officials with the Nuclear Regulation Authority on … Continue reading →

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