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Published on Dec 12, 2013
NRA to approve restart of reprocessing facility
Japan's nuclear regulator plans to approve a partial restart of a facility for reprocessing spent nuclear fuel before it clears safety screening under new regulations.
The Nuclear Regulation Authority says it's allowing the restart to make plutonium and other highly radioactive waste in the facility solid and more stable.
The authority said on Wednesday that it plans to allow the government-backed Japan Atomic Energy Agency to operate part of the plant in Tokai Village, about 100 kilometers north of Tokyo.
The decision comes after the agency sought permission to restart the facility soon, saying that keeping the waste in liquid form involves high risks.
NRA commissioners said the facility's stockpiles of plutonium solutions and other liquid waste will be made safer when reprocessed into solids.
They came up with a plan to allow part of the facility to run for 5 years before checking is done under the enhanced regulations.
The facility stores 3.5 cubic meters of solutions containing plutonium and more than 400 cubic meters of highly radioactive liquid waste. NRA secretariat officials say reprocessing the plutonium solutions into powder will take about 2 years, and turning other liquid waste into glass 21 years.
The new regulations are to take effect on December 18th. The NRA is to give formal approval after confirming that the agency can ensure stable reprocessing at the plant.
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Japan's environment ministry says it has disposed of about 90 percent of the debris from the massive quake and tsunami in 2011.
The ministry says it estimated more than 16 million tons of rubble was generated in the 3 northeastern prefectures of Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima.
It says workers by the end of October had disposed of 94 percent of the debris in Miyagi and 86 percent in Iwate.
In Fukushima, except in evacuation zones near the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, workers have gotten rid of 59 percent.
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Japan's nuclear regulator plans to approve a partial restart of a facility for reprocessing spent nuclear fuel before it clears safety screening under new regulations.
The Nuclear Regulation Authority says it's allowing the restart to make plutonium and other highly radioactive waste in the facility solid and more stable.
The authority said on Wednesday that it plans to allow the government-backed Japan Atomic Energy Agency to operate part of the plant in Tokai Village, about 100 kilometers north of Tokyo.
The decision comes after the agency sought permission to restart the facility soon, saying that keeping the waste in liquid form involves high risks.
NRA commissioners said the facility's stockpiles of plutonium solutions and other liquid waste will be made safer when reprocessed into solids.
They came up with a plan to allow part of the facility to run for 5 years before checking is done under the enhanced regulations.
The facility stores 3.5 cubic meters of solutions containing plutonium and more than 400 cubic meters of highly radioactive liquid waste. NRA secretariat officials say reprocessing the plutonium solutions into powder will take about 2 years, and turning other liquid waste into glass 21 years.
The new regulations are to take effect on December 18th. The NRA is to give formal approval after confirming that the agency can ensure stable reprocessing at the plant.
Miyagi nearing full disposal of quake debris
Japan's environment ministry says it has disposed of about 90 percent of the debris from the massive quake and tsunami in 2011.
The ministry says it estimated more than 16 million tons of rubble was generated in the 3 northeastern prefectures of Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima.
It says workers by the end of October had disposed of 94 percent of the debris in Miyagi and 86 percent in Iwate.
In Fukushima, except in evacuation zones near the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, workers have gotten rid of 59 percent.
"In 2013, people really interested in radioactive fallout" — US gov't studying public attention to Fukushima, tracks twitter searches — NRC FOIA: "Libyan war news should now downgrade Fukushima"
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NRA hasn't held the meeting for contaminated water problem for over a month / The last one was cancelled
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Oe: State secrets law endangers freedoms in Japan
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Japanese government officials to eat rice from Fukushima
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