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The Rokkasho plant is the successor to a smaller reprocessing plant that was located in Tōkai, Ibaraki in central Japan which shutdown in 2014 and was approved for decommissioning in 2018. [13] The Rokkasho facilities complex includes: A high level nuclear waste monitoring facility; A MOX fuel fabrication plant; A uranium enrichment plant [14 ...
List of US Reprocessing Plants Name Location Fuel Type Procedure Status Reprocessing capacity (tHM/yr) Construction start date Operation date Closure Purpose Hanford Site: Washington: REDOX, PUREX: Shut down 1944 1988 Military Savannah River Site: South Carolina: LWR PUREX: Shut down 5000 1952 2002 Civil West Valley LWR PUREX: Shut down 300 ...
Greenpeace has opposed operation of the Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant under a campaign called "Wings of Peace: No more Hiroshima, Nagasaki. Stop Rokkasho", [17] since 2002 and has launched a cyberaction [18] to stop the project. Rokkasho was a candidate to host the plasma fusion reactor ITER, but lost out to Cadarache, France.
The first generation Uranium Enrichment Plant in Rokkasho, Aomori operated 1992 to 2010 with a capacity of up to 1,050 ton-SWU/year, which is equivalent to the nuclear fuel used by 8 or 9 reactors at 1,000 MW-class nuclear plants. [1] [2] A second generation plant using centrifuges with composite carbon-fibre rotors started operating in 2011 ...
The first large-scale nuclear reactors were built during World War II.These reactors were designed for the production of plutonium for use in nuclear weapons.The only reprocessing required, therefore, was the extraction of the plutonium (free of fission-product contamination) from the spent natural uranium fuel.
[38] [39] It has constructed the Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant, which could produce further plutonium. [38] Japan has a considerable quantity of highly enriched uranium (HEU), supplied by the U.S. and UK, for use in its research reactors and fast neutron reactor research programs; approximately 1,200 to 1,400 kg of HEU as of 2014. [40]
The Rokkasho site does work with fusion research, notably a fusion reactor design research institute, a particle accelerator, and a materials irradiation test facility. The facilities in Mutsu include a museum, an ocean monitoring facility, and radioactive waste management.
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