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[February 14, 2006]

Japanese editorial excerpts+

(Japan Economic Newswire Via Thomson Dialog NewsEdge)TOKYO, Feb. 15_(Kyodo) _ Selected editorial excerpts from the Japanese press:

GLOBAL POLICY NEEDED ON RECYCLING N-FUEL (The Daily Yomiuri as translated from the Yomiuri Shimbun)

The U.S. Energy Department announced its Global Nuclear Energy Partnership on Feb. 6, reversing a decades-long policy against reprocessing nuclear fuel. This decision will affect the atoms-for-peace programs of not only Japan but many other countries.



According to the department, the GNEP will promote nuclear power generation inside and outside the United States, which will alleviate problems stemming from the disparities between oil demand and oil supply. To achieve this goal, Washington will revive the reprocessing of spent nuclear fuel, which has not been undertaken in the United States since 1979.

Under the GNEP, countries with nuclear fuel reprocessing technologies, including Japan, Russia and the United States, would take in spent nuclear fuel from countries without such facilities and reprocess the spent fuel into fresh reactor fuel on their behalf. The GNEP would urge countries forwarding fuel for reprocessing to intentionally leave some impurities in the fuel to make it harder for it to be used in the construction of a nuclear weapon.



In short, the partnership would be a grand initiative to establish a global recycling system to separate energy elements--uranium and plutonium--from spent fuel and turn them into new reactor fuel.

Nuclear power plants are very effective in alleviating the energy crisis as well as battling global warming. We support the new U.S. policy and say Japan should cooperate with the partnership in developing a new technology.

The spent nuclear fuel left after the generation of electricity is the main drawback of nuclear power plants. Since the spent fuel contains radioactive waste, the reprocessing or disposal of spent fuel requires the understanding of people living near nuclear facilities as well as a great deal of money. (Feb. 15)

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