Japan's spent fuel and plutonium management challenge

Energy Policy

Volumn 39, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 6827-6841

  Katsuta, Tadahiro ^a   Suzuki, Tatsujiro ^b  

^a MEIJI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Nuclear spent fuel; Plutonium; Rokkasho reprocessing

Indexed keywords

DIRECT DISPOSAL; FUTURE CONSUMPTION; NUCLEAR SPENT FUELS; PLUTONIUM MANAGEMENT; PLUTONIUM RECYCLING; ROKKASHO REPROCESSING; ROKKASHO REPROCESSING PLANTS; STORAGE CAPACITY;

COMMERCE; FUEL STORAGE; FUELS; PLUTONIUM; SPENT FUELS;

NUCLEAR FUEL REPROCESSING;

ENERGY USE; NUCLEAR POWER; PLUTONIUM; RECYCLING;

JAPAN;

EID: 79957650216     PISSN: 03014215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2009.05.075     Document Type: Article

References (6)

1. Cabinet Office, Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology and Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, September 6, 2005. Japan's stockpile of separated plutonium as of the end of December 2004 (in Japanese).
2. Japan Atomic Energy Commission, October 11, 2005. Framework for Nuclear Energy Policy.
3. Japan Atomic Energy Commission, March 2006. White Paper on Nuclear Energy 2005 (in Japanese).
4. Memorandum of Aomori Prefecture, 2003. Rokkasho Village and JNFL, 29 July.
5. Nuclear Safety Commission of Japan, 1999. 1999 White paper on nuclear safety, March.
6. The Federation of Electric Power Companies of Japan, Graphical Flip-chart of Nuclear & Energy Related Topics, 2002. Japan Atomic Energy Relations Organization p. 36.