Exclusive Photos of Not-So-Secret Plutonium Operation in Japan!
Mission has been badly bungled, backfires
“Nuclear Security Summit Effect” — Stimulating Plutonium Shipment from Japan to US
Slideshow is of PNTL’s UK-flagged Pacific Egret arriving and docking in the port of Tokaimura on March 21, 2016, accompanied by Japanese Coast Guard vessels, including the infamous Shikishima.
>>> Photo credit: ©Kano Hidemichi, with the Japanese nuclear non-proliferation and information organization Kakujoho.
Please visit the Kakujiho website in English or Japanese. Kakujoho is a leading Japanese group working on issues of proliferation concern about Japan’s plutonium stockpiling and plutonium fuel (MOX) programs.
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An important document linked on the Kakujoho website, which should be read by all participants in the Nuclear Security Summit (March 31 – April 1, Washington, DC)::
Ending reprocessing in Japan: An alternative approach to managing Japan’s spent nuclear fuel and separated plutonium (pdf), Masafumi Takubo and Frank von Hippel, IPFM report, November 2013
Loading of 331 kilograms of plutonium from the Fast Critical Assembly (FCA) took place a short while after the photos were taken. The plutonium is now being transported to the military port in Charleston, South Carolina USA and will be taken by truck to the US DOE’s Savannah River Site (near Aiken, South Carolina), where it will be stranded as there is no viable disposal plan for the material. The US DOE and White House are still totally unable to explain or justify why 236 kg of British-origin FCA plutonium are being dumped at SRS.