Michele Kearney's Nuclear Wire: Japan made secret promise with U.S. to restart pluthermal nuclear program

Wednesday, July 3, 2013

Japan made secret promise with U.S. to restart pluthermal nuclear program

A Japanese prime ministerial envoy secretly promised to the United States that Japan would resume its controversial "pluthermal" program, using light-water reactors to burn plutonium, according to documents obtained by the Mainichi.
The secret promise was made by Hiroshi Ogushi, then parliamentary secretary of the Cabinet Office, to Daniel Poneman, deputy secretary of the U.S. Department of Energy, during Ogushi's visit to the United States on behalf of then Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda in September last year.http://mainichi.jp/english/english/newsselect/news/20130625p2a00m0na006000c.html