planned to return VHLW generated during the overseas reprocessing of Japanese-origin spent fuel, ignited considerable controversy at many points along its sea route. In the face of united opposition by

by the IAEA to clean out the plant and measure the plutonium.32 At a commercial reprocessing plant Japan is about to build, the IAEA's safeguards system will tolerate a shortfall of 250 kilograms (550

I would make the point that we haven't really had reprocessing in this country. They do it in France. But, I would agree with Paul that it's not necessary when we have light water reactors. On the other

time has come to do everything possible to ensure plutonium is not shipped to SRS before that legislation becomes law." U.S. Rep. Lindsey Graham has proposed legislation that would give the state $1

Reprocessing would put into commerce immense amounts of separated plutonium that could be stolen by terrorists for use in nuclear or radiological weapons. A study performed for NCI by five nuclear weapons

level radioactive wastes from military or civil fuel reprocessing, long term surface storage facilities for tens of thousands of tons of spent fuel, or surface storage facilities for plutonium removed

where the fuel had been fabricated with plutonium removed from Japanese spent fuel shipped to the THORP reprocessing factory. Initial use of MOX in Japan has since been frozen due to citizen protest spurred

reprocessing plant at Sellafield, Energy Secretary John Battle responded that plutonium so recovered has been fabricated into MOX fuel and then described the following arrangement for transport of the

this plutonium has been separated at the British and French state-controlled "reprocessing" plants from other nuclear waste by-products contained in spent fuel from Japanese nuclear reactors). In this

Verhofstadt said Washington was considering recycling the plutonium at Belgonucleaire, a Belgian subsidiary of French state nuclear reprocessing firm Cogema, or at a plant in France. It would take