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.
Japan Electric Power Co. and 11 electric power companies have agreed to proceed with efforts to conduct an empirical study on reprocessing of used mixed plutonium-uranium oxide (MOX) fuel in France supported by Orano, according to the.
The completion of a nuclear fuel reprocessing plant in Aomori Prefecture will be delayed by two years, the 26th postponement since the project started three decades ago.