Stop MOX Shipments! Nuke Info Tokyo No. 129
A shipment of MOX (mixed plutonium and uranium oxide) fuel bound for Japan left the port of Cherbourg in France on March 5. As predicted, the ships (PNTL’s Pacific Pintail and Pacific Heron) will...
Category: Nuclear Fuel Cycle
Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant Problems with the Production of Glass Canisters Nuke Info Tokyo No. 128
The Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant, owned and operated by Japan Nuclear Fuel Ltd. (JNFL), is in the final stage of active testing, but problems with vitrification of high-level radioactive waste to form glass canisters have...
Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant Nuke Info Tokyo No. 127
Never Ending Vitrification Problems The last stage of active testing of the Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant has been plagued by technical problems. The operator, Japan Nuclear Fuel Ltd. (JNFL), has been unable to produce glass...
Officials Despair of February Monju Restart Nuke Info Tokyo No. 127
On October 22, a meeting of a committee looking into the safety of the Monju Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor (FBR, 280 MWe, Tsuruga City) began with the chairman, Hirotada Ohashi, grumbling that he was...
Opposition to Dangerous MOX Fuel Nuke Info Tokyo No. 127
Ignoring local opposition, electric power companies are pushing ahead with preparations for the introduction of pluthermal1 in 2010. So far, Kyushu Electric (Genkai), Shikoku Electric (Ikata), Chubu Electric (Hamaoka) and Kansai Electric (Takahama) have...
Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant: Vitrification Facility’s Troubles Continue Nuke Info Tokyo No. 126
Japan Nuclear Fuel Ltd. (JNFL) is supposed to be conducting active tests at the Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant, but in reality the plant has been effectively out of action for around nine months since the...
Monju Restart Delayed Again Nuke Info Tokyo No. 126
On 20 August 2008 the Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA) announced a change to its schedule for completing plant confirmation tests for the Monju Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor (FBR, 280 MWe). JAEA said that...
Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant: Vitrification Problems Continue Nuke Info Tokyo No. 125
No indication when active tests will be completed Problems continue to plague the high active radioactive waste vitrification facility at Japan Nuclear Fuel Ltd’s (JNFL) Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant. Sixty glass canisters were produced in...
No Sign of Resumption of Vitrification at Rokkasho Nuke Info Tokyo No. 124
No chance of completing the plant in May as planned The final stage of the active tests of the Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant began in February this year, but the high-level liquid waste vitrification facility...
Full MOX Reactor to Burn Japan’s Growing Plutonium Stockpile Nuke Info Tokyo No. 124
On April 23 the Minister of Economy Trade and Industry approved the establishment of the Ohma nuclear power plant (NPP) in Ohma Town, Aomori Prefecture. This article is adapted from the first of a...