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October date for full operations definitely won’t be met The vitrification furnace at Japan Nuclear Fuel Ltd’s (JNFL) Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant is being restored. However, this only means that the prospects of resuming active...
As mentioned in NIT 136, on May 6 the Monju Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor (FBR, 280MWe), developed by the Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA), was restarted for the first time in over 14 years....
On May 12, the UK’s Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) announced an agreement by which Japan would throw a lifeline to the UK’s troubled Sellafield MOX Plant (SMP). SMP was originally designed to produce 120...
On May 6, at 10:36 am, Japan’s Monju Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor (280 MWe) began test operations for the first time in 14 years. The reactor reached criticality precisely two days later on May...
To Delegates to the 2010 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference Restart of Japan’s Monju Fast Breeder Reactor – Implications for Nuclear Proliferation, Nuclear Safety and Energy Supply On May 6, Japan’s Monju Prototype Fast...
April 6, 2010 Citizens’ Nuclear Information Center* is deeply concerned about the grave risks involved with the restart of the Monju Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor (FBR).1 Safety, economic and nuclear proliferation issues are being...
Press Release March 23, 2010 Monju Restart: Appeal by Japanese Scientists Japanese scientists concerned about the imminent restart of the Monju Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor issued a statement on March 11 this year. Citizens’...
Japan’s Monju Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor (FBR, 280MWe) is scheduled to restart by the end of the 2009 fiscal year (March 31, 2010). If it does so, it will be the first time the...
Another HLW Leak Japan Nuclear Fuel Ltd. (JNFL) is currently trying to restore the Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant after a leak of about 150 liters of high-level radioactive liquid waste (HLW) in the vitrification facility...
Sixteen MOX1 fuel assemblies shipped from Areva’s Melox MOX Fuel Fabrication Plant in France arrived at Kyushu Electric Power Company’s Genkai-3 Nuclear Power Plant on May 18 this year. Kyushu Electric finished loading the...