Japan’s Plutonium Problem
Data shows a major stockpile Disposal solutions hard to find The Japanese Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) recently released the latest data on Japan’s plutonium stockpile (please click here to view) the total of which...
Category: MOX/plutonium-thermal
Nuclear plant restarts and the pluthermal plan ~Report on CNIC open research seminar (NIT No. 171)
On March 8, CNIC held an open research seminar at the National Diet. Mary Olson, of the Southeast Office of the Nuclear Information and Resource Service (NIRS), U.S. spoke on ‘Problems regarding America’s MOX...
Plutonium Shipment to Depart Japan for United States – Exposes Failure Of Global Reprocessing Programs
Plutonium Shipment to Depart Japan for United States – Exposes Failure Of Global Reprocessing Programs March 22nd 2016, Tokyo…The shipment of weapons-grade plutonium at the port of Tokai, Ibaraki prefecture departing later today, exposes...
The Mystery of Japan’s Growing Stockpiles of Separated Plutonium -Nuke Info Tokyo No. 168
by Masafumi Takubo, Kakujoho Website Operator At a regular meeting of the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) of Japan on July 21, the AEC secretariat presented a report saying that Japan’s separated plutonium stockpile had increased...
MOX fuel should not be loaded into reactors but disposed of as waste Nuke Info Tokyo No. 155
Statement issued by the NPO Citizens’ Nuclear Information Center Co-directed by Yukio Yamaguchi, Baku Nishio, and Hideyuki Ban MOX fuel should not be loaded into reactors but disposed of as waste Independent Study for...
Japan to the Rescue of Sellafield MOX Plant Nuke Info Tokyo No. 136
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...
Genkai-3 First to Begin Long-Delayed Pluthermal Program Nuke Info Tokyo No. 133
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...
MOX Fuel Ships Arrive in Japan Amidst Citizen Protest Nuke Info Tokyo No. 130
On May 18, 2009, two British-flagged vessels, the Pacific Pintail and Pacific Heron arrived in Japan from France carrying 1.7 metric tons of weapons-usable plutonium contained in 65 assemblies of MOX (mixed plutonium and...
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...
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...
