“Japan is a highly advanced nuclear nation, and has extensive
experience with many reactor technologies and fuel cycles. These include
the so-called FUGEN reactor, which incorporated heavy water moderator,
boiling light water coolant, and mixed oxide fuel. When Japan’s new
prime minister Shinzo Abe said last week that he wants new nuclear
reactors and that they should be much different from the 50 light water
designs that for decades provided the bulk of Japan’s nuclear
electricity, Steve Aplin of Canadian Energy Issues gave some reasons why
the heavy water CANDU could perfectly fit the bill.”
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