Japanese utilities to disclose plutonium use plan in January
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[December 29, 2005]

Japanese utilities to disclose plutonium use plan in January

(Kyodo News International (Tokyo) (KRT) Via Thomson Dialog NewsEdge) Dec. 29--TOKYO -- Japanese power companies are planning to disclose, possibly in early January, their plan to use plutonium for power generation to demonstrate they will not be holding a surplus inventory of the radioactive substance that may be used also to build nuclear weapons, officials of the Federation of Electric Power Companies of Japan said Thursday.



The move comes after the Atomic Energy Commission of Japan has required electric power companies to disclose plans on when, where and how much plutonium they will use before a test operation of extracting plutonium from a nuclear fuel-reprocessing plant in the village of Rokkasho in Aomori Prefecture.

Power companies in Japan are planning to use plutonium reprocessed from spent fuel at nuclear reactors for plutonium-thermal power generation, or what they call the pluthermal method, that burns mixed uranium and plutonium oxide fuel, or MOX fuel.



Japan Nuclear Fuel Ltd. has a plan to start operations of a factory to produce MOX fuel in Rokkasho from 2012 by using plutonium.

But Tokyo Electric Power Co. and Kansai Electric Power Co. may have to delay disclosing their plans because local residents have withdrawn their approval of the pluthermal project after Tokyo Electric was penalized in 2002 for falsifying nuclear plant safety data, and a fatal nonradioative accident occurred at Kansai Electric's Mihama nuclear plant last year.

Niigata Gov. Hirohiko Izumida asked Tokyo Electric earlier this month not to include the Kashiwazaki Kariwa Nuclear Power Station in Niigata Prefecture in the pluthermal project.

The two companies may have to consider whether they can include in the utilization plan the name of the nuclear reactors involved in the project and when to start it.

The federation aims to have 16 to 18 pluthermal reactors by fiscal 2010, but the plutonium to be used at this stage is that reprocessed in Britain or France and will not be included in the utilization plan planned to be released in January, the officials said.

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