Juin 2018 / THE ASAHI SHIMBUN

Scaling back of French reactor a blow for nuke fuel reprocessing [ASTRID]

May 31, 2018 at 14:25 JST

Japan's hopes of keeping its nuclear fuel recycling program alive faces another major obstacle with signs from France that a reactor project there will be scaled back because of swelling construction costs.

After the nuclear fuel recycling program suffered a heavy blow with the decision in late 2016 to decommission the Monju prototype fast-breeder reactor, government officials turned to France's ASTRID program as an alternative information source (...)

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