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Plutonium and Japan's Nuclear Waste Problem: International Scientists Call for an End to Plutonium Reprocessing and Closing the Rokkasho Plant

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2025

Piers Williamson
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On 31 May 2012, Professor Mizukami Tetsuo (Institute for Peace and Community Studies, Rikkyo University) hosted two lectures on the problems associated with reprocessing spent nuclear fuel. The speakers were Professor Frank von Hippel (Princeton University), former assistant director for national security in the White House Office of Science and Technology and co-chair of the International Panel on Fissile Materials (IPFM), and Professor Gordon MacKerron, Director and Head of SPRU (Science and Technology Policy Research) at the University of Sussex.

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 10 , Issue 24 , June 2012 , e4
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1 www.princeton.edu

2 www.sussex.ac.uk

3 mainichi.jp

4 www.fissilematerials.org

5 timesfreepress.com

6 Jacques E. C. Hymans (2006), The Psychology of Nuclear Proliferation, Cambridge University Press: Cambridge.

7 timesfreepress.com

8 mainichi.jp

9 mainichi.jp

10 www.japanfocus.org

Also see: www.nytimes.com

For a brief interview with former diplomat Akio Matsumura see here.

For analysis by nuclear expert Arnie Gundersen see here.

11 blogs.wsj.com

12 e360.yale.edu