Mar 18, 2012

Time for antinuclear protests

While Japan mourned on the first anniversary of the Tohoku disaster last Sunday, many people all over Japan also turned their sorrow into protest. At least 20,000 antinuclear protesters took to the parks and streets of the country to show their resolve against nuclear ...

Jan 21, 2012

Risky nuclear loophole

The government has worked out a revision of the law on the control of nuclear reactors. Under the revision, the operational life span of a reactor will be legally limited to 40 years — in principle. But the revision contains an exception clause, modeled ...