CNIC’s Anti-Nuclear News Service

News Watch 115 (Nov./Dec. 2006)
http://cnic.jp/english/news/index.html#latestnw
–Turbine damage due to “high-cycle fatigue”
–Shifting international alliances in nuclear industry
–Mitsui feasibility study into development of Russian uranium
–Aomori governor unimpressed by application for receipt of radioactive waste from abroad
–Tsuno Town won’t apply for HLW dump
–Application for pluthermal at Shimane-2
–Local approval for pluthermal at Ikata-3
–Call for Saga Prefecture citizens’ referendum re pluthermal
–Request submitted for approval of new fuel plan for Monju

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http://cnic.jp/english/news/index.html#flash

Letter to IAEA Director General, Dr. Mahomed ElBaradei: Japanese NGOs question claim by JNFL president, Isami Kojima, that “practically speaking it is impossible” to separate plutonium from MOX fuel. (30 November 2006)

Call to Abandon Reprocessing as First Plutonium-Uranium Mixed Oxide (MOX) Powder Produced at Rokkasho (17 November 2006)

North Korea Nuclear Test and NSG Rules: letter to the Japanese govenment (11 October 2006)

North Korea Nuclear Test: Statement of Protest (10 October 2006)

GNEP Expression Of Interest: Japan’s Nuclear Industry Clutching at Straws (9 September 2006)

Japanese Government Urged to Oppose India-US Nuclear Deal: NGOs hold press conference (6 September 2006)

Lessons the G8 Can Learn from Japan: the Nuclear Fuel Cycle is an Economic Failure Providing no Energy Media Release by CNIC and Green Action (14 July 2006)

Global Nuclear Energy Partnership and Japan: Statement by CNIC and Green Action (11 July 2006)