See it here: 20th anniversary re-release of an important document on illegal reprocessing cooperation between the US and Japan.
“The Unlawful Plutonium Alliance – Japan’s Supergrade Plutonium and the Role of the United States”
Given the enduring proliferation implications of reprocessing to obtain weapon-usable plutonium, this report is still worth a read. Revelation of illegal cooperation between the U.S. Department of Energy under Secretary of Energy Hazel O’Leary garnered major news and seemed to have, at least for a while, inhibited the transfer of “sensitive nuclear technology” (SNT) – some of which was developed at the Savannah River Site – from the U.S. to Japan. Unfortunately, since the report was issued Japan has continued its plutonium stockpiling program but at least the future of the Rokkasho reprocessing plant and Monju breeder reactor are in serious doubt. (For the “The Current Situation of Plutonium Management in Japan,” dated September 11, 2013, by Japan’s Atomic Energy Commission, and how Japan has blatantly violated its “no surplus plutonium” pledge click here.)
“The Unlawful Plutonium Alliance – Japan’s Supergrade Plutonium and the Role of the United States”
by Shaun Burnie & Tom Clements, Greenpeace International, September 1994
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