reprocessing
March 18, 2013
For years, Japan, under a national policy, has been seeking to build a nuclear fuel recycling system that extracts plutonium from spent fuel through reprocessing for reuse as...
December 11, 2012
In a recent commentary titled "Japan’s Nuclear Mistake" in The New York Times, two nuclear policy experts argue that the Obama administration should make it emphatically...
September 13, 2012
With Japan moving to phase out nuclear energy, Britain, France and Aomori Prefecture are trying to ensure they will not be stuck with high-level radioactive waste from a fuel...
September 12, 2012
Citing the country's geologically unstable archipelago as a threat, the Science Council of Japan is recommending that the government build temporary storage facilities to hold...
August 25, 2012
The industry ministry plans to amend legislation to allow for "direct disposal" of spent nuclear fuel, a move away from the nation’s problem-plagued goal of creating a full...
July 20, 2012
To build a safe society that does not rely on nuclear power, it is necessary for the government not only to lower the ratio of nuclear power to overall electricity generation...
February 04, 2012
An experiment to convert radioactive liquid waste into an easier-to-dispose-of glassy substance at a spent nuclear fuel reprocessing plant has been delayed because preliminary...
October 27, 2011
New government estimates that factor in the cost of the disaster at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant show that nuclear power generation is actually a relatively...
September 21, 2011
The amount of fissile plutonium possessed by Japan both at home and abroad as of the end of 2010 was about 30 tons, according to a Cabinet Office report submitted to the Japan...
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