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Ship modified for transport of used MOX fuel via World Nuclear News

Posted on 2026/05/06 by nfield

French nuclear fuel company Orano’s TN Eagle flask design – 5 metres long, 3 metres in diameter, weighing 150 tonnes – was approved by the French Nuclear Safety Authority in 2020 and by the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission in November … Continue reading →

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Plutonium policy update and plutonium remobilisation in the Irish Sea via nuClearNews

Posted on 2021/05/12 by nfield

Plutonium Policy UpdateIntroductionThe Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) now expects the Magnox Reprocessing Plant at Sellafield to close this year (2021) – one year later than previously planned. The newer Thermal Oxide Reprocessing Plant (THORP) was shut in November 2018. Reprocessing, … Continue reading →

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Frank Barnaby obituary via The Guardian

Posted on 2020/08/24 by nfield

Radiation physicist at Aldermaston who went on to warn of the dangers posed by the civil and military uses of nuclear energy […] In the early years of Margaret Thatcher’s government in Britain, and Ronald Reagan’s in the US, global investment in … Continue reading →

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Questions emerge over need for Japanese nuclear reprocessing plant via NHK World-Japan

Posted on 2020/06/01 by nfield

On May 13, Japanese nuclear regulators announced that the Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant had met new safety regulations, taking a crucial step toward becoming operational. The government has long touted the facility as crucial to the country’s nuclear energy policy, but … Continue reading →

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Spent MOX nuclear fuel removal starts, 2nd case in Japan via The Mainichi

Posted on 2020/01/27 by nfield

TSURUGA, Japan (Kyodo) — Operations have started to remove a rare type of spent fuel made of plutonium-uranium mixed oxide from a nuclear reactor in central Japan, its operator Kansai Electric Power Co. said Monday. The removal of MOX fuel … Continue reading →

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Safety checks delay construction of MOX fuel plant in Aomori for third time via The Japan Times

Posted on 2018/09/04 by nfield

[…] Electric Power Development Co. had been planning to begin construction of major facilities at the Oma nuclear power plant in the prefecture during the latter half of this year, but told the Oma Municipal Assembly on Tuesday it has … Continue reading →

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Japan to cap plutonium stockpile to allay U.S. concerns via The Asahi Shimbun

Posted on 2018/06/17 by nfield

Japan plans to boost measures to curb surplus plutonium extracted from the reprocessing of spent fuel at nuclear power plants, including capping the country’s stockpile of the highly toxic material. The move followed the U.S. and other countries’ calls for … Continue reading →

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US could use canceled plutonium fuel plant to make new nuclear weapons　via Beyond Nuclear international

Posted on 2018/05/17 by nfield

By Linda Pentz Gunter After wasting $7.6 billion on a plan to manufacture a fuel that no commercial US nuclear reactor is designed to use, the US Department of Energy finally indicated last week that it will cancel the facility … Continue reading →

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Trump administration axes project to generate power from plutonium via Reuters

Posted on 2018/05/14 by nfield

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Trump administration plans to kill a project it says would have cost tens of billions of dollars to convert plutonium from Cold War-era nuclear bombs and burn it to generate electricity, according to a document it … Continue reading →

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大間原発訴訟原告が控訴　地裁判決の問題性訴え via 北海道新聞

Posted on 2018/03/28 by nfield

[…] 　原告側は地裁で主張した各争点に加え、原子力規制委員会の審査が終わっていないことを理由に、大間原発の危険性を認めず、各争点に対する判断を示さなかった地裁判決の問題性も訴える考えだ。 　１９日の地裁判決は「規制委による審査中であり、運転開始のめどが立たない現時点で、重大事故の危険性をただちに認めることは困難」とした。原発周辺の海底活断層の存在の有無や火山の影響、使用済み核燃料を再処理して抽出したプルトニウムとウランの混合酸化物（ＭＯＸ）燃料を全炉心で使う「フルＭＯＸ」発電の危険性など、原告側の主張に対する判断を避けた。       全文  

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