nuclear power policy
June 09, 2012
Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda's first news conference about his administration's nuclear power policy raised serious doubts about his political integrity.
March 03, 2012
There is now no nuclear reactor in western Japan that is generating electricity. The two reactors that are still in operation in Japan, both located in eastern parts of the...
November 28, 2011
Pro- and anti-nuclear camps are stepping up their tug of war on restarting nuclear reactors, but the man in the middle of the battle, Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda, remains...
August 16, 2011
The new nuclear safety agency being set up by the government to regulate nuclear power plants is to be classified as an extra-ministerial bureau of the Environment Ministry.
August 08, 2011
The government has unveiled a draft plan to restructure its nuclear regulatory organizations and functions in a crucial policy response to the disastrous accident at the...
August 06, 2011
The novelist Sakyo Komatsu, who died July 26 at age 80, first came across the term "genshi bakudan" (atom bomb) during World War II in a magazine for children. The bomb...
August 06, 2011
Can mankind live with nuclear power? This summer, 66 years after an atomic bomb devastated Hiroshima, we are once again faced with this momentous and difficult question.
July 29, 2011
NAGASAKI--In an Aug. 9 peace declaration to be delivered by Tomihisa Taue, the Nagasaki mayor plans to promote a shift to non-nuclear renewable energy sources for Japan,...
July 23, 2011
LOS ANGELES--Caribbean nations on July 20 called on Japan, Britain and France to immediately halt the transport of reprocessed nuclear waste through the Caribbean Sea.
July 23, 2011
Chubu Electric Power Co. will build an 18-meter-high sea wall to shield its Hamaoka nuclear power plant in Shizuoka Prefecture from tsunami.
July 23, 2011
The Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency instructed all electric power companies on July 22 to report by Aug. 22 any errors in data on the earthquake resistance of nuclear...
July 23, 2011
Kansai Electric Power Co.'s request to renew its license to operate a nearly 40-year-old reactor could be in trouble if signals from Prime Minister Naoto Kan are an indication.
July 23, 2011
SOMA, Fukushima Prefecture--The famous Soma Noma-oi (Soma wild horse chase) festival kicked off in Fukushima Prefecture July 23, despite fears that it would have to be...
July 16, 2011
This is the fourth of a five-part editorial series proposing ways for Japan to achieve a society that does not depend on nuclear power generation for its energy supply.
July 15, 2011
This is the third of a five-part editorial series proposing ways for Japan to achieve a society that does not depend on nuclear power generation for its energy supply.
July 07, 2011
The government has decided to carry out "stress tests" on all nuclear power plants in Japan to assess their safety. To be relevant and reliable now, such safety tests must be...
July 01, 2011
Prime Minister Naoto Kan handed Goshi Hosono a big job--state minister in charge of the accident at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant--but he didn't give him much to do...
July 01, 2011
Takehiro Adachi of Hyogo Prefecture is a name I see frequently in the Haidan haiku section of the vernacular Asahi Shimbun. One of his works goes: "The straight-line distance...
July 01, 2011
Should operations of nuclear reactors that completed routine inspections be resumed? That's the question everyone has been asking since the accident at the Fukushima No. 1...