Japan will seek a nuclear energy pact with the United States that renews automatically while it continues reprocessing spent fuel and enriching uranium, government sources said Tuesday. The government plans to forgo a long-term pact similar to the 30-year bilateral agreement that expires in July ...
Fukui Gov. Issei Nishikawa says he's willing to accept the central government's plan to decommission the trouble-prone Monju prototype fast-breeder reactor in the city of Tsuruga. At a meeting Wednesday at the Prime Minister's Office, Nishikawa said the decommissioning of experimental Monju cannot be helped. The ...
Once envisioned in a key role of the fuel-recycling policy, the controversial Monju reactor is scrapped by the government.
The central government’s plan to decommission the Monju fast-breeder reactor comes under fierce criticism from the governor of the prefecture that hosts the trouble-prone nuclear facility.
The Japanese government said Wednesday it plans to compile in 2018 a road map for the development of a fast reactor. The plan was shown as part of a draft outline of Japan's fast reactor development policies at a meeting of a public-private council on ...
Disposal of a large amount of radioactive sodium will become a problem if the trouble-prone nuclear reactor is scrapped.
The science and technology ministry overseeing the trouble-prone Monju fast-breeder reactor is considering starting decommissioning of the facility in 2020, ministry sources said Tuesday. It is the first time a specific time frame for decommissioning work for the Monju reactor in Fukui Prefecture on the ...
The Japan Atomic Energy Agency is considering applying for a government safety assessment of its aging Joyo experimental fast reactor in March in hopes of restarting it, according to sources close to the matter. The government is looking to the Joyo reactor to continue development ...
Big money pull a million stringsBig money hold the prize Big money weave a mighty web Big money draw the flies — Rush, "The Big Money" Last month's announcement that the Monju experimental fast-breeder reactor in Tsuruga, Fukui Prefecture, would likely be decommissioned was an acknowledgement of what ...
The science ministry says the cost of resuming operations at the trouble-plagued Monju prototype fast-breeder nuclear reactor will likely top ¥540 billion.
In February 1983, Mayor Koichi Takagi of Tsuruga, Fukui Prefecture, spoke to residents in the town of Shiga, Ishikawa Prefecture, who were hoping the town would be chosen as the site for a new nuclear power plant. Tsuruga already hosted two conventional reactors and, just ...
The government opts to cut its losses, pulling the plug on the project after years of mishaps, cover-ups and waste.
