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With costs mounting, Japan to abandon ‘dream reactor’ via Nikkei Asian Review

[…] Facing insurmountable challenges, most developed countries exited development. Monju reached criticality in 1994, starting a sustained nuclear chain reaction, but was shut down for nearly 14 years after a sodium coolant leak. It barely operated at all during the past … Continue reading

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