As for nuclear fuel cycle facilities, not even the Rokkasho waste landfill can be called on to accept L2 waste, so there is no clear destination for any of the waste being generated or stored.
Challenges against Iran's nuclear program have grown substantially since late 2002 when Iran's achievement in acquiring new technologies in the field of nuclear fuel cycle was disclosed.
(1) the halt of the new and additional construction of nuclear power plants(including all of those in the planning stage and under construction) and the immediate closure of nuclear fuel cycle facilities such as reprocessing plants and fast-breeder reactors;
Industries, hospitals and medical, educational, or research institutions; private or government laboratories; and nuclear fuel cycle facilities(e.g., nuclear power reactors and fuel fabrication plants) using radioactive materials generate low-level wastes as part of their normal operations.
APPEAL We appeal to you, the G8 Energy Ministers, to condemn the radioactive contamination of the Pacific Ocean and the world's atmosphere from the Rokkasho reprocessing plant, a part of Japan's nuclear fuel cycle program.
In this process, as you noted, we are currently asking for the views of municipalities hosting nuclear power facilities, which have long supported Japan's nuclear power policy or nuclear fuel cycle policy, including Aomori Prefecture.
Thirdly, if the Government decides to aim for zero nuclear power, then municipalities may say that they will return the spent nuclear fuel that has been accumulating in their districts, such as Aomori Prefecture. Is it possible that the Government will elect not to maintain the nuclear fuel cycle policy?
SNAEP calls for a nuclear programme based on:(1) large nuclear power stations;(2) small modular nuclear reactors; and,(3) a nuclear fuel cycle including uranium and thorium mining and subsequent stages through uranium enrichment.
We encourage the work of the IAEA on multilateral approaches to the nuclear fuel cycle, including assurances of nuclear fuel supply, as effective means of addressing the expanded need for nuclear fuel services, while taking into account the global interest in minimizing the risk of proliferation.
Efforts to establish a formal legal link between the use of nuclear power and solutions for the back end of the nuclear fuel cycle began in California in the mid-1970s when it became clear that the prospects for successfully completing either reprocessing capacity or a waste disposal system were increasingly dim.
As for energy-related businesses, nuclear power generation has already been established as a key industry in the region and several nuclear reactors are under construction. In addition, a plant for nuclear fuel cycle, which is the only such plant in Japan and the fourth one in the world, has been preparing for its operation.
Since α radiation had been detected in their nostrils and there was a strong possibility that the five people had inhaled plutonium, they were transported to the Nuclear Fuel Cycle Engineering Labs in Tokai Village, where measurement of plutonium inside their lungs was carried out using a lung monitor.
Nuclear Fuel Cycle The nuclear fuel cycle is considered necessary to lower nuclear power plant costs, but disposal of high-level radioactive waste generated during processing faces a brick wall.[2] Plans call for sealing the waste in glass and disposal underground, but currently, only one out of several pieces of vitrified waste actually made is successfully sealed.
At the moment, said Kile, it is unclear to what extent Iran is willing to limit or reduce its sensitive nuclear fuel cycle activities in exchange for a lifting of Western sanctions, or whether the U.S. and its European Union(EU) partners will agree to lift sanctions without a near-total dismantlement of Iran's nuclear infrastructure.
We reaffirm our commitment to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons and in accordance with the related articles of the NPT, recall the right of all State Parties, including the Islamic Republic of Iran, to develop research, production and use of nuclear energy(as well as nuclear fuel cycle including enrichment activities) for peaceful purposes without discrimination.
The"Technical Subcommittee on Nuclear Power, Nuclear Fuel Cycle, etc"of the Japan Atomic Energy Commission when reviewing the cost of nuclear power generation, assumed a severe accident to be priced at 5 trillion yen based on the calculation results arrived at by the TEPCO Investigative Committee. They estimated that the unit price of" electric generation would increase by 1.2 to 1.6 yen/kWh if a severe accident occurred once in 500 reactor years Nuclear Safety Commission of Japan, 2011.
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