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Japan’s Plutonium to be Handed over to France!? The Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA) signed a basic framework agreement with the French company Orano’s recycling subsidiary on March 30 regarding the transport and recycling...
Category: Nuclear Fuel Cycle
CNIC Statement: Things Japan needs to do regarding nuclear disarmament before “constructing bridges”
Suspend the spent nuclear fuel reprocessing plan, declare its support of No First Use and enshrine the Three Non-Nuclear Principles into law. Citizens’ Nuclear Information CenterJune 23, 2022 The first Meeting of States Parties...
CNIC SYMPOSIUM REPORT: Nuclear Crisis and Peaceful Use of Nuclear Energy: Implications of the Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant Operation
~ Symposium to Commemorate the Launch of the Nuclear Fuel Cycle Special Site of the Citizens’ Nuclear Information Center By Takano Satoshi and Caitlin Stronell (CNIC) On April 28, an international symposium was...
CNIC SYMPOSIUM: Nuclear Crisis and Peaceful Use of Nuclear Energy: Implications of the Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant Operation
~ Symposium to Commemorate the Launch of the Nuclear Fuel Cycle Special Site of the Citizens’ Nuclear Information Center In recent years, the situation regarding nuclear weapons has become increasingly tense: in 2019,...
Status of Safeguards for Japanese Plutonium Stored in the UK and France
By Matsukubo Hajime (CNIC) For many years, Japan has commissioned the reprocessing of spent fuel to the United Kingdom and France (Table 1). The reprocessing itself of the commissioned spent fuel has already been...
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Japan to Cooperate with America’s Fast Reactor Plans TerraPower, a US nuclear power development venture founded by Bill Gates, is planning to construct a “Natrium™” sodium-cooled fast reactor in the state of Wyoming. The...
U.S. Declaration of “No First Use” and Japan’s Nuclear Fuel Cycle: Why is Japan able to restrain the U.S. nuclear policy shift?
By Matsukubo Hajime (CNIC) The U.S. Biden Administration is currently working on the Nuclear Posture Review (NPR). This work commenced in early July and is expected to be completed in early 2022. NPR signifies...
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NRA Suspends Review of Tsuruga Unit 2 The Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) of Japan decided on August 18 to discontinue its review of the Unit 2 reactor at Japan Atomic Power Co.’s (JAPC’s) Tsuruga...
CNIC Statement: Regarding Comments on the Nuclear Fuel Cycle by Liberal Democratic Party Presidential Election Candidates
Published in Japanese on September 23, 2021 We would like to point out that there have been serious misunderstandings about the nuclear fuel cycle in the discussions associated with the current Liberal Democratic Party...
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Barakah Unit 1 Enters Commercial Operation with Turbine and Generator from Toshiba Toshiba Energy Systems announced on June 26 that the Barakah Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) Unit 1 reactor (PWR, 1400 MW) in the...
