Tokyo, 17 May 2017 – Today the Takahama 4 nuclear reactor in Fukui Prefecture was restarted, despite significant unresolved safety issues that place millions at undue risk. The restart comes after an injunction barring the operation of the...

Tokyo, 6 June 2017 - With today’s restart of the Takahama 3 reactor in Fukui Prefecture, Greenpeace revealed that the nuclear operator Kansai Electric and the French nuclear company AREVA are planning a secret plutonium fuel shipment from France...

The “Bill On the Implementation of Cetacean Scientific Research for the Resumption of Commercial Whaling” (translation by IKAN) is a non-partisan bill that was first drafted by the opposition Democratic Party, but now aims to be passed by this...

Tokyo, 23 June 2017 - The new Chairman of Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings (TEPCO) is confronted with a systemic crisis, which will prevent the restart of its nuclear reactors for many years and with no possibility to cover the tens of...

Today, the trial of three former TEPCO executives charged with ‘criminal negligence resulting in death’ for their role in the Fukushima nuclear disaster will open. Prosecutors contend that former TEPCO Chairman Tsunehisa Katsumata and two...

Tokyo, 5 July 2017 – The plutonium MOX fuel shipment that will depart France to the Takahama unit 4 reactor today highlights both the risks and failure of Japan’s nuclear fuel cycle policy, Greenpeace warned today. Plutonium MOX fuel use reduces...

Tokyo, 25 October 2017 - Japan’s nuclear regulator must take urgent action to launch a comprehensive investigation into the supply and widespread use of potentially flawed Kobe Steel products in the Japanese nuclear industry, Greenpeace and five...

Geneva, 14 November 2017 – This morning in the Working Group for the United Nations Human Rights Council (OHCHR) Universal Periodic Review (1) of Japan multiple nations raised concerns for Fukushima survivors’ human rights in the face of the...

国際環境NGOグリーンピース（東京都新宿区）とグリーン・アクション（京都府京都市）は、今日、原子力規制委員会は、関西電力高浜原発のケーブル敷設の分離について、有無が未確認として非難しました。1月21日に参議院議院会館で行われた集会で、原子力規制庁の職員は市民からの質問に対し、高浜原発3、4号機に基準違反があるかどうかわからないとしました（注1）。関西電力は、福井県若狭湾沿岸に位置する高浜原発3号機を1月29日にも再稼働させる予定です。