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The Rokkasho Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing Facility (六ヶ所村核燃料再処理施設, Rokkasho Kakunenryō Saishori Shisetsu) is a nuclear reprocessing plant with an annual capacity of 800 tons of uranium or 8 tons of plutonium.
Jan 8, 2023 · The Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant, which will separate plutonium from spent fuel, is 25 years behind schedule and faces more delays. Japan has a large stock of plutonium in Europe and plans to use it in MOX fuel, but faces technical and political challenges.
Rokkasho (六ヶ所村, Rokkasho-mura) is a village in Aomori Prefecture, Japan. As of 1 March 2023, the village had an estimated population of 9,845 in 4988 households, and a population density of 40 persons per km². [1] The total area of the village is 252.68 square kilometres (97.56 sq mi).
Dec 26, 2023 · The Rokkasho reprocessing plant—which would reprocess spent fuel from Japanese nuclear power plants, separating plutonium for use as reactor fuel—is already more than 25 years behind schedule. There are reasons to wonder whether the plant will ever operate.
Nov 10, 2012 · The Rokkasho plant seems an anomaly in a country that forswears nuclear weapons and that has shut down all but two of its 54 nuclear reactors.
The Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant, approximately 3,800,000 square meters in size, is the first commercial plant in Japan, adopting technology developed from over 40 years of operations results in France and the United Kingdom as well as operating experience from the Japan Atomic Energy Agency. [3]
Apr 18, 2016 · The reprocessing plant in northern Honshu has a poor reputation for technical glitches and other problems. However there is growing confidence that the technical problems that plagued Rokkasho ...
