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Takahama Units 3, 4 to Operate Past 40 Years Takahama Nuclear Power Station Units 3 and 4 (PWR, 870 MW each), owned and operated by Kansai Electric Power Co. (Kanden), began operating in...
Category: MOX/plutonium-thermal
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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...
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...
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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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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...
CNIC Statement: Withdraw the anachronistic Action Plan to Resuscitate Nuclear Power
30 November 2022 At the meeting of the Nuclear Energy Subcommittee of the Advisory Committee for Natural Resources and Energy on November 28, the secretariat, the Natural Resources and Energy Agency of the Ministry...
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...
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...