The Japan Atomic Energy Agency, which runs the troubled Monju prototype fast-breeder reactor in Fukui Prefecture, will shift the project’s focus to research from the current goal of generating power, its president has indicated.
JAEA President Atsuyuki Suzuki said the plan to build a demonstration fast-breeder reactor and subsequently a commercial one after Monju will be very hard for the public to accept.
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