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Here, several other pieces of info on Rokkasho reprocessing plant and plutonium.
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The risks:
1. Large quantities of radioactivity concentrated and released into the environment
- Released into the atmosphere: Krypton, Tritium, Xenon, Iodine,
Carbon-14, Caesium, Ruthenium, etc.
- Released to sea: Tritium, Technetium, Caesium, Americium, Iodine, Plutonium, etc.
2. Reprocessing capacity: 800 tons/year
Plutonium separated: 8 tons (8,000 kilograms)/year
- 8 kg of plutonium is enough to make one Nagasaki type bomb (8,000kg/kear separated at Rokkasho)
- 10 micrograms (10 millionths of a gram) is the amount permitted for about 1 billion people.
If, in addition to the existing stockpile of 43 tons, 8 tons of
plutonium is separated each year, this comes to 363 tons after 40
years operations at full capacity.
3. Spent Nuclear Fuel (SNF): storage capacity of 3,000 tons
- (Less than 3 years worth of the SNF from Japan's 55 reactors)
Where will they store other SNF after 3 years from the beginning of full-scale operation?
4. The commercial use of nuclear energy, on which the whole process is premised, is in itself a big problem, because of the radioactive waste and the possibility odd catastrophic accidents.
Furthermore, Japan is a seismic country.
5. Japan's use of plutonium will have a huge impact on international disarmament efforts and could encourage other countries to use plutonium.
There have already been expressions of great concern from the international community...
Union of Concerned Scientists: Japanese plutonium plant undermines war on terror
Homepage | Union of Concerned Scientists ... plant.html
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