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2020.08.19 (Wed)

【#711(Special)】Potential Threats of Chinese IT Companies

August 17, 2020 　 On August 14, U.S. President Donald Trump ordered Chinese information technology company ByteDance to sell the U.S. operations of its TikTok short-form video app within 90 days. Th...

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2020.07.09 (Thu)

【#699(Special)】Prevent Japan’s Cutting-Edge Technologies from Flowing Out Overseas

July 7, 2020 Japan’s Fugaku supercomputer, co-developed by the government-backed Riken research institute and Fujitsu Ltd., has won the world’s top spot in computing speed and three other performan...

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2020.06.11 (Thu)

【#688(Special)】Clear the Confusion about Hypochlorous Acid Water

June 9, 2020 　 Social confusion has arisen over an interim report on May 28 by the National Institute of Technology and Evaluation on verification tests of candidate alcohol replacements to disinfec...

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2020.04.16 (Thu)

【#673(Special)】Rescue U.S. Carriers from Coronavirus Infection

April 13, 2020 　 Crewmembers aboard the Theodore Roosevelt and three other U.S. Navy nuclear-powered aircraft carriers have been found infected with the novel coronavirus. Given that U.S. carriers e...

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2020.04.08 (Wed)

【#671(Special)】Reconsider Sendai Nuclear Power Station Shutdown

April 6, 2020 　 On March 16, Kyushu Electric Power Co. shut down Unit 1 of its Sendai Nuclear Power Station in Kagoshima Prefecture, western Japan. As the deadline for completing an anti-terrorism f...

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2020.02.19 (Wed)

【#657】Proposal for New Coronavirus Infection Prevention

February 17, 2020 　 A nuclear power plant that meets Japan’s new safety standards, known as the toughest in the world, is equipped with a filter vent to filter out radioactive materials in the event...

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2020.01.23 (Thu)

【#652(Special)】Judicial Risks Threatening Social / Industrial Infrastructure

January 21, 2020 　 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, endorsing three Yamaguchi Pref...

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2019.10.03 (Thu)

【#623(Special)】Accelerate N-plant Restart in Readiness for Middle East Conflict

September 30, 2019 　 In the Speaking Out #620 column, Tsutomu Toichi, senior adviser at the Institute of Energy Economics, Japan, took up drone and cruise missile attacks on oil facilities in Saudi ...

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2019.09.26 (Thu)

【#621(Special)】Not-Guilty Verdict for Former TEPCO Executives

September 24, 2019 　 The Tokyo District Court has acquitted all three former executives of Tokyo Electric Power Company Holding Inc. of professional negligence resulting in death over the TEPCO Fuku...

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2019.01.23 (Wed)

【#568(Special)】Japan Should Enhance Nuclear Plant Export and Energy Policies as Part of Growth Strategy

January 21, 2019 　　　　　On January 18, Hitachi Ltd. announced its board’s decision to freeze a project to build a two-reactor nuclear power station on Britain’s Anglesey Island. The decision came as...

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