Power may become more acceptable to the public if reprocessing is shut down. Clearly, the plutonium program in Britain, as in Germany and Japan, is encountering great difficulties. I have been privileged

Power may become more acceptable to the public if reprocessing is shut down. Clearly, the plutonium program in Britain, as in Germany and Japan, is encountering great difficulties. I have been privileged

Japan is using British and French state-owned reprocessing industries to recover plutonium from its spent fuel. Several thousand tons of Japanese spent fuel have been shipped to Europe since the 1970s

3) the reprocessing industry's hope that the transport of plutonium in the form of MOX fuel will be perceived by the public as posing less severe environmental and security risks than the transport of

Reprocessing, however, greatly reduces the amount of plutonium--the substance the NCI is most concerned about. Getting rid of plutonium is surely good (a) because it is long-lived and (b) because of possible

reactor operators would be forced to reprocess their spent fuel in Europe, removing an incentive for cooperation with the RERTR program. Calling the RERTR program "one of the unsung heroes of the IAEA

assisted Pakistan in construction of an unsafeguarded plutonium production reactor at Khushab,46 and possibly a reprocessing plant at Chasma.47 In 1986, China sold Pakistan tritium, an element used in

but Japan still has not halted reprocessing and stockpiling of weapon-usable plutonium fuel. The shippers are unlikely to announce the route or departure date well in advance of the MOX shipment. We

policy by depending upon a fuel cycle that requires the reprocessing of spent fuel and recycle of plutonium. It is U.S. policy not to undertake or encourage reprocessing because it increases the danger

Reprocessing separates the used fuel into uranium, plutonium, and highly radioactive wastes. The separated plutonium is to be shipped back to Japan for reuse in power reactors under a revised U.S.-Japan