The NRA's role is to enhance nuclear safety, a key to energy security. But at Tsuruga and elsewhere, it simply seems intent on ending nuclear power...
The Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Station would have contributed to Japan's stable energy supply. But the NRA only lifted the ban after nearly three years.
In Japan, tritium comes 10 times more in rainfall than would be released at Fukushima Daiichi. China and South Korea release far more of it.
Communities experiencing serious electricity shortage, especially those in eastern Japan, should see the importance of Kishida’s major policy shift.
The plaintiffs’ risk of receiving fatal injury by radiation is close to zero, far lower than socially weak people’s mortality risk from electricity price hikes.
The global energy crisis will lead to blackouts in Japan unless leadership steps in to ensure a safe, stable domestic power supply.
Carbon dioxide emissions would be about 30% lower than they are now if reactors 2 and 3 of Chugoku Electric Power’s nuclear plant are started.
On January 17, the Hiroshima High Court ordered Shikoku Electric Power Co. to suspend Unit 3 of its Ikata Nuclear Power Station in Ehime Prefecture,...