Burnie, Shaun.

Japan's Nuclear Twilight Zone. / Shaun Burnie and Aileen Mioko Smith. - Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 2001. - SIRS Enduring Issues 2002. Article 52. Environment, 1522-3205; .

Articles Contained in SIRS Enduring Issues 2002. Originally Published: Japan's Nuclear Twilight Zone, May/June 2001; pp. 58-62.

"For decades, Japan's nuclear energy policy has been based on the idea that it would eventually use plutonium. Now, as plutonium stocks pile up, it is clear that Japan has no way to use it all." (BULLETIN OF THE ATOMIC SCIENTISTS) The authors profile Japan's current plutonium program and describe the construction of Rokkashomura, a reprocessing plant and the largest single industrial project in Japan.

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Mixed oxide fuels (Nuclear engineering)
Nuclear industry--Japan.
Nuclear nonproliferation.
Plutonium as fuel.
Reactor fuel reprocessing.

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