KAKUJOHO (Nuclear Information)

Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant

• Open letter to Prime Minister Abe─"Call to help strengthen worldwide nuclear security by stopping plutonium separation." ( March 28, 2016) (in time for the Nuclear Security Summit: March 31-April 1)(pdf)
  ⇒List of Signatories
• Open letter to Prime Minister: Appeal for measures for Japan to contribute to strengthening the non-proliferation regime on the occasion of the NPT Review Conference (pdf) (May 7, 2015)
• It's NPT time. Japan, do you know where your plutonium is?
  Non-proliferation Primer for Japan 2015 (pdf)
• Open letter to Ministers and Chairpersons on Nuclear Security and Minimization of Nuclear-weapon-usable Materials (pdf) (30 June 2014) by Dec. 5 2013 Asahi-Prinston Symposium participants
• MOX fuel in Japan: Summary of shipments, use, and storage By Pavel Podvig on June 10, 2014, IPFM blog (with the summary of the MOX fuel status in Japan (pdf) by Masa Takubo)
• An error in Japan's civilian plutonium declarations By Pavel Podvig on June 7, 2014, IPFM blog
• Asahi-Princeton Symposium (held in Tokyo on December 5, 2013)
  Asahi article on the SYMPOSIUM: Japan's massive stockpile of plutonium casts shadow over nonproliferation efforts, January 05, 2014, THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
  Recommendations by the foreign participants in the Asahi-Princeton 5 December 2013 Symposium in Tokyo on Managing Spent Fuel: To Reprocess or Store?
  Presentations at the Symposium
• The impact of Japan's reprocessing program on the risks of nuclear proliferation and nuclear terrorism (pdf) by Steve Fetter
• Nuclear reprocessing in the UK: Sources of entrapment (pdf) by William Walker
• 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
• Call to Action:─ Stop Japan from further separating nuclear weapon usable plutonium ─Stop Japan's Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant (Summer 2013) (and international response)
• Japan's Nuclear Mistake By FRANK N. VON HIPPEL and MASAFUMI TAKUBO, New York Times, NOV. 28, 2012
• Japan's reprocessing program and proliferation in East Asia (pdf) by Masa Takubo and Frank von Hippel, translation published by Kyodo, 22 June 2012
• Nuclear or not? The complex and uncertain politics of Japan's post-Fukushima energy policy, by Masa Takubo, Bulleting of the Atomic Scientist, Nov. 2011
• From reprocessing and breeder reactor development to dry cask storage of spent fuel by Frank von Hippel (published in Sekai, August 2012)
• WAKE UP, STOP DREAMING: Reassessing Japan's Reprocessing Program (pdf) by Masafumi Takubo, Nonproliferation Review, Vol. 15, No. 1, March 2008
• An appeal to Japan for leadership toward strengthening of the non-proliferation regime (May 24, 2005)
• Call for Indefinite Postponement of the Operation of the Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant
• List of Signatories
• Statement at UN meeting by H.A. Feiveson
• A Call on Japan to Strengthen the Non-Proliferation Treaty by Indefinitely Postponing Operation of the Rokkasho Spent Fuel Reprocessing Plant (May 5, released by UCS)
• Japanese Plutonium Program Threatens Nonproliferation Regime, Warn Nobel Laureates and Other Experts
• Japanese ZEN approach to proliferation
• Japanese ZEN approach to the economics of reprocessing
• Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant (pdf, 140kb) by CNIC

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Related links

• Current Situation of Plutonium Management in Japan (JAEC):2 Oct 2001-
• Rokkasho and Japan's Nuclear Fuel Cycle (CNIC)
• Plutonium and Proliferation(CNIC)

Japan's policy on extended nuclear deterrence

• Open letter to Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga and other leaders of Japan's political parties on NFU/Sole purpose by US groups/individuals, August 9, 2021
  A Call for Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga and other leaders of Japan's political parties not to oppose a Biden administration declaration of a no-first-use or sole-purpose policy
  • Backgrounder: Japan’s position on NFU/Sole (August, 2021), Kakujoho (Nuclear information)
• One sentence letter to Prime Minister Abe: Don't oppose No-First-Use
• Role of Nuclear Weapons: Japan, the U.S., and "Sole Purpose", Masa Takubo, Arms Control Today, November 2009

Others

• Comparison of the US-India and US-Japan Nuclear Cooperation (123) Agreements and their relationship with US laws and international frameworks
• Shunsuke Kondo, Rough Description of Scenario(s) for Unexpected Situation(s) Occurring at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, 25 March 2011 (pdf, translation by Kakujoho/Greenaction)