Rokkasho redux: Japan's never-ending reprocessing saga : vim

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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