ALERTS!!!!

“The number of children and grandchildren with cancer in their bones, with leukemia in their blood, or with poison in their lungs might seem statistically small to some, in comparison with natural health hazards. But this is not a natural health hazard—and it is not a statistical issue. The loss of even one human life, or the malformation of even one baby—who may be born long after we are gone—should be of concern to us all. Our children and grandchildren are not merely statistics toward which we can be indifferent.”

John F. Kennedy, July 26th, 1963

Wednesday, December 18, 2013

New rules for spent fuel reprocessing in effect

From: The Japan Times

 ...The problem-prone plant, which is expected to play a key role in Japan’s fuel recycling strategy, is designed to reprocess spent uranium fuel and reuse the extracted plutonium and uranium as reactor fuel. (...)
The Rokkasho plant was initially expected to be completed before 2011, when the Fukushima crisis started, but a series of problems, including leakage of high-level radioactive waste liquid, has delayed the schedule.
Japan Nuclear Fuel says the facility is designed to reprocess 800 tons of spent fuel per year, extracting about 8 tons of plutonium in the process.

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