Source : The Asahi Shimbun
https://ajw.asahi.com/article/views/editorial/AJ201409190028
EDITORIAL : Time running out to scrap nuclear fuel recycling program
September 19, 2014
Japan currently stores spent nuclear fuel primarily at 18 nuclear power plants around the country. Most of the 17,000 tons of radioactive material is kept in spent nuclear fuel pools.
Storage of spent nuclear fuel in pools is highly vulnerable to incidents such as natural disasters and (...)