There are too many nuclear materials?Japan intends to transfer excess 让 to France

Jimu News reporter Zhang Yang

On June 20, the Kyodo News Agency reported that Japan's atomic can study and develop institutions and the government has basically decided to transport the lack of fuel of the newly converted "Puxian" in the agency to France to France for re -processing and extracted it. The transfer to the French side.

Converted "Puxian" (Picture Source: Kyodo Society)

Lack of fuel, also known as radiation nuclear fuel, is a nuclear fuel that has undergone radiation and used, and is usually generated by nuclear reactors at nuclear power plants.

Because the lack of fuel of "Puxian" is currently unable to re -process in Japan, the Japanese atomic energy research and development institutions have signed a fuel transportation container and other preparatory contracts with French companies in 2018. On June 15 this year, the Government of Japan and France exchanged documents before handling related documents. Among them, the time that the fuel was transported from Japan from April 2023 to March 2027, and the period of high radioactive waste returned to Japan was 2042. At the end of March.

According to the article, according to Japan's pursuit of policies for Mado, it is rare to transfer the ingredients as useful resources to foreign countries, and high radioactive waste generated during the process of processing will be shipped back to Japan.

的 的 can also become the material of nuclear weapons. The holdings of Japanese atoms can study and develop agencies about 3.6 tons (the bottom estimation value of the 2021), but the number of reactors is minimal. According to analysis, because of the "nowhere to be available" (related person) in Puxian fuel, in order to prevent the holding of the holding volume, it was decided to transfer.

Relevant sources said that the Japanese party will pay for the re -processing fee. As for how the value of the transfer is evaluated, and whether to obtain the corresponding value payment from the French side may leave a future consultation.

It is reported that "Puxian" has stopped operating in 2003. There are 731 fuels in total, mostly fuels of uranium mixed oxides (MOX), and the 钚 that can be extracted after treatment is expected to be about 1.3 tons.

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