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

and it's only when the plutonium is separated, extracted in reprocessing plants, from the used uranium fuel of those plants. It is generated in these reactors as a waste by-product. RR: Indeed. PL:

Lyman noted. To move all 60 tons of Japanese plutonium from Britain and France to Japan (after reprocessing from spent fuel and fabrication into MOX fuel) could require as few as 40 or as many as 600

continue to discourage the accumulation of separated plutonium, worldwide. The United States should also consider technologies, in collaboration with international partners with highly developed fuel

set a precedent for air shipment of tens of tons of plutonium oxide to Germany from Britain if the THORP reprocessing plant is started up. A British Department of Transport official, in a recent Parliamentary

at a Public Forum on High Level Nuclear Waste and Reprocessing in Aomori City tomorrow. The forum was convened by the Nuclear Fuel Cycle Issues Group (Kakunen Mondai Kenkyakai), an advisory body made

and thereby deny European, Japanese and Russian plutonium interests any opportunity to exploit the dual-track approach to their advantage---as they already have begun doing to win public support for their

during its transport of plutonium from France to Japan. 2 It also occurred in early 1995, when the British vesse} Pacific Pintail carrying 28 logs of high-level vitrified nuclear waste altered its course

Emergency response is a weak point in Japan's plutonium program, as made clear by the major mistakes made after the fire and explosion that contaminated 37 workers at the Tokai-mura reprocessing plant

shipment by sea of vitrified waste that results from the reprocessing of spent fuel from commercial power reactors to acquire plutonium The impending shipment should not proceed until all promised studies