Report Release: Suggestions about Japan’s Nuclear Fuel Recycling Policy Based on U.S. Concerns

 

Report Release: Suggestions about Japan’s Nuclear Fuel Recycling Policy Based on U.S. Concerns To date, Japan’s peaceful nuclear energy use has taken the form of a nuclear fuel recycling policy that reprocesses spent fuel and effectively utilizes the plutonium retrieved in light water reactors (LWRs) and fast reactors (FRs). However, Japan presently seems to have issues regarding its recycling policy and plutonium management and, because of recent increasing risks of terrorism and nuclear proliferation in the world, the international community seeks much more secure use of nuclear energy. Yusei Nagata, an FAS Research Fellow from MEXT, Japan, analyzes U.S. experts’ opinions and concerns about Japan’s problems and considers what Japan can (and should) do to solve it in this report.

https://fas.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/japannukefuelrecyling_final.pdf