Nuclear Reprocessing Organization News Today

By Tatsujiro Suzuki | December 26, 2023,  https://thebulletin.org/2023/12/rokkasho-redux-japans-never-ending-reprocessing-saga/ The policy seeks to at least begin to deal with the huge stocks of plutonium Japan has amassed According to a recent Reuters report, Japan Nuclear Fuel Ltd (JNFL) still hopes to finish construction of Japan’s long-delayed Rokkasho reprocessing plant in the first half of the 2024 fiscal year (i.e.…

The Rokkasho reprocessing plant—which would reprocess spent fuel from Japanese nuclear power plants, separating plutonium for use as reactor fuel—is already more than 25 years behind schedule. There are reasons to wonder whether the plant will ever operate.

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