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Seeking the next-generation fuel
23 December, 1999
The Alliance fuel design is the result of a joint strategy by Framatome/Fragema and Framatome Cogema Fuel. They wanted to develop a fuel product that will meet operator needs from the middle of the next decade.

Rokkasho-Mura: from plans to reality
27 August, 1999
The final destination of vitrified high level waste shipped to Japan from Europe is Rokkasho-Mura in Aomori, which has been called Japan’s “nuclear prefecture”. Besides the HLW storage facility at Rokkasho-Mura, JNFL (Japan Nuclear Fuel Ltd) operates a uranium enrichment plant, low-level radioactive waste disposal centre and a vitrified high level waste storage facility, and is constructing a reprocessing plant scheduled for completion in 2003.

Using VISTA to evaluate MOX fuel trends
27 August, 1999
The IAEA’s new model is able to simulate future uranium and fuel cycle service requirements. In one application it considers closed cycle operation and the use of MOX fuel. It achieves this by assuming that future parameters can be estimated by reactor type, instead of forecasting for individual reactors.

New confidence seen at Sendai City
30 June, 1999
The 32nd annual meeting of the Japan Atomic Information Forum was held in Sendai City. This city is in the Tohoku district where many nuclear facilities are situated and is also the headquarters of the Tohoku Electric Power Co, which, in December 1998, started construction of Higashidori Unit 1, the first plant in Japan to be built on a new site in ten years. by JOHN NEDDERMAN

Growing awareness of the NORM risks from non-nuclear industries
07 February, 1999
Radioactive waste is perceived by some as a special type of waste, requiring more stringent standards than other hazardous waste if public concerns are to be met.1 Radwaste is also often viewed as specific to nuclear power. However, there is a growing awareness that naturally occurring radioactive materials (NORM) arising from practices other than nuclear power lead to public exposures and that their management must be placed in perspective with other practices that may affect health and safety.