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Both Kanden and Tohoku Electric Power Co. to Build On-site Spent Fuel Dry Storage Facilities Regarding plans to establish on-site dry storage facilities for spent fuel at the Mihama, Takahama and Ohi nuclear...
Category: Nuclear Fuel Cycle
Kaminoseki Interim Storage Facility Plans Should be Scrapped
Emergence and Outline of the Interim Storage Facility Plans On August 2, 2023, Chugoku Electric Power Co. (Chuden) proposed plans to Kaminoseki Town for interim storage facilities to be constructed on its land holdings...
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Plutonium Recovered through Reprocessing of Fugen Fuel to be Transferred to Orano The Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA) reported to Japan’s Atomic Energy Commission (JAEC) on September 19 regarding its policy for utilizing plutonium...
Reference Material: Japan’s separated plutonium inventory (as of Dec. 31, 2022)
The plutonium management data as of the end of 2022 was notated in a very different way from previous years. Previously, the data was presented in detail for each facility and each process. This...
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Spent MOX Fuel to be Sent to France for Reprocessing The Nuclear Reprocessing Organization of Japan (NuRO) and the Federation of Electric Power Companies announced on June 12 that plans for an experimental study...
CNIC Statement: Stop reprocessing in France and get out of the nuclear fuel cycle
27 June 2023 On May 19, the Federation of Electric Power Companies of Japan (FEPC) announced its policy to reprocess spent MOX fuel in France, and on June 12, the Federation of Electric Power...
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GX Promotion Bill, GX Decarbonized Power Supply Bill Passed Two GX- (Green Transformation) related bills Japan’s government had submitted to the Diet overcame much opposition to be passed. The GX Promotion Act (Act for...
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Revisions to Basic Policy on High-level Radioactive Waste Disposal As noted in CNIC’s statement (cnic.jp/english/?p=6519), a ministerial meeting on final disposal of nuclear waste was held on February 10, proposals for revising the basic...
CNIC Statement: Opposing Revisions to the Basic Policy on the Final Disposal of ‘Nuclear Garbage’
16 February 2023 The Kishida Administration held a ministerial meeting on final disposal of nuclear waste on February 10, 2023, announcing revisions to Japan’s basic policy on the final disposal of specified radioactive wastes....
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Injunction to Halt Mihama Unit 3 Operation Rejected Osaka District Court handed down a decision on December 20, 2022 rejecting a request for an injunction against operation of the Unit 3 reactor of the...
