PuPo 2017 Presentations
Please see speakers profiles here Click on the names of speakers below to see their presentation/materials More will be added as they become available DAY 1: 23 February (Thurs) 10.00-10.10 Welcome Speech (Koichi Hasegawa)...
Category: MOX/plutonium-thermal
Japan’s nuclear waste: Dangers and options
Report on two lectures by Prof. Frank von Hippel Prof. Frank von Hippel, from Princeton University’s Program on Science and Global Security, gave talks in Tokyo on ‘Monju and Japan’s reprocessing policy’ and ‘Reducing...
Planned Monju Decommissioning ~The Changed Future of Japan’s Nuclear Fuel Cycle
The Japanese government has practically decided to decommission the Monju fast breeder reactor. Because the reactor has been positioned at the core of Japan’s nuclear fuel cycle, its decommissioning will mark a significant change...
Prof. Frank von Hippel’s lecture slides
Prof. Frank von Hippel, from Princeton University’s Program on Science and Global Security, gave lectures in Tokyo on ‘Monju and Japan’s reprocessing policy’ and ‘Reducing the danger of spent fuel pool fires’ on November...
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...
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...