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Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) has been selected as the core company in charge of the conceptual design of a demonstration fast reactor which the government aims to put into operation in the 2040s. MHI will oversee both the conceptual design as well as research and development for a sodium-cooled fast reactor in partnership with Mitsubishi FBR Systems (MFBR), an MHI Group engineering company established in 2007 to handle the development and design of fast reactors. The design work for the new reactor is scheduled to begin in fiscal 2024.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 19 July 2023
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsmhi-to-be-responsible-for-design-of-new-japanese-fast-reactor-11014815
Japan Nuclear Fuel Limited has announced that it now expects the reprocessing plant under construction at Rokkasho in Japan's Aomori Prefecture to begin commercial operation in 2024 instead of 2022, as had been previously scheduled.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Friday, 06 January 2023
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Rokkasho-reprocessing-plant-completion-delayed-aga
An International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) team of experts on 27 August completed a two-month review of Japan's plans and activities to decommission the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station, highlighting considerable achievements over the past decade as well as major challenges ahead. It followed four previous such IAEA missions since the 2011 accident and was conducted at the request of the Government of Japan.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 01 September 2021
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsiaea-review-of-japans-plans-to-decommission-fukushima-daiichi-9043845
Conditions at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant site have improved since a review in 2018, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has concluded following its fifth review of Japan's plans and activities to decommission the plant. The IAEA team of experts reviewed the current situation at the site and future plans in areas such as the removal of used fuel and the retrieval of fuel debris, radioactive waste, water and site management.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Saturday, 28 August 2021
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/IAEA-sees-continued-progress-at-Fukushima-Daii-(1)
Japan’s interim used fuel storage facility under construction in Mutsu, Aomori prefecture is now expected to begin operating in fiscal year 2023 (ending March 2024), the Recyclable-Fuel Storage Company Ltd (RFS) said on 27 July. This is just the latest in a series of delays to the project.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Friday, 30 July 2021
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsmore-delays-japanese-used-fuel-store-8946114
Recyclable-Fuel Storage Company Ltd (RFS) now expects its interim used fuel storage facility in Mutsu, Aomori prefecture, to begin operating in fiscal year 2023 (ending March 2024). Following several previous delays, the facility - construction of which began in 2010 - had been scheduled to start up later this year. However, the construction of additional safety measures is taking longer than expected.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Thursday, 29 July 2021
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Start-up-of-Japanese-used-fuel-store-delayed
IAEA-led international research on the management of severely damaged used nuclear fuel is providing key lessons learned from sites such as Fukushima Daiichi, Chernobyl and Three Mile Island and demonstrating the value of global scientific collaboration, IAEA said on 11 March.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Tuesday, 16 March 2021
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsiaea-study-looks-at-severely-damaged-used-fuel-10-years-after-fukushima-8601284
The expected completion of the reprocessing plant at Rokkasho in Japan's Aomori Prefecture has been put back again, to the first-half of FY2022 (ending March 2023), owing to the implementation of safety measures at the plant, including construction of a new cooling tower, Japan Nuclear Fuel Limited (JNFL) has announced.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Wednesday, 26 August 2020
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Japanese-reprocessing-plant-delayed-by-another-yea
Japan's Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) today approved a draft report concluding Japan Nuclear Fuel Limited's (JNFL's) reprocessing plant at Rokkasho in Aomori Prefecture meets new safety standards. The approval brings the plant, construction of which began in 1993, closer to starting up.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Thursday, 14 May 2020
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Regulator-approves-safety-of-Japanese-reprocessing
A review of the management of treated water stored at the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan has been carried out by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). It says the two options under consideration for disposing of this water - discharge into the sea and via vapour release - are both technically feasible.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Saturday, 04 April 2020
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/IAEA-supports-discharge-of-Fukushima-Daiichi-water