fuel elements to Japan. The fuel is made with plutonium that was extracted from the spent fuel of Japanese nuclear power reactors in a British reprocessing plant. Leventhal noted that Japan, in a 1988

been one successful demonstration of can-in-a-can for plutonium disposition. "Prospects are good that this technology will also be successfully demonstrated for bomb-grade uranium fuel over the next

The best course is to leave plutonium and associated waste products in France and Britain, the world's reprocessing centers, for long-term storage and disposal. This course would have widespread support.

dilute technology and the remainder reprocessed. Melt-and-dilute involves the melting in an oven of the aluminum-clad HEU research-reactor spent fuel assemblies, with conversion of the melted material

Separation of plutonium from fresh MOX fuel is a straightforward chemical process. Reprocessing irradiated MOX fuel by means of PUREX employs proven technology that could recover substantial amounts of

supporters on Capitol Hill to reverse the decisions against reprocessing of spent reactor fuel and recovery of plutonium made in the Ford, Carter and Reagan Administrations. They are urging the Administration

France and Japan not to consider any new contracts for reprocessing spent nuclear fuel which are likely to lead to many more dangerous shipments of spent nuclear fuel, high level nuclear waste and weapons-

French reprocessing company COGEMA said on Tuesday. It was expected to arrive at the Japanese port of Mutsu Ogawara in mid-March, the French state company said. The waste orginated from Japan and was

disposal of the 140 tonnes of civilian weapons-usable plutonium being stockpiled at the state-owned reprocessing facilities of British Nuclear Fuels Limited (BNFL) and Frances Cogema. Return to What'

The deadly, 30-ton cargo is a by-product of the "reprocessing" of spent fuel from Japanese reactors to separate weapon-usable plutonium, which has no commercial value. None of the governments involved