Katsuta, Tadahiro; Suzuki, Tatsujiro - In: Energy Policy 39 (2011) 11, pp. 6827-6841
Japan's commitment to plutonium recycling has been explicitly stated in its long-term program since 1956. Despite the … active testing in 2006. Japan's cumulative consumption of plutonium has been only 5tons to date and its future consumption …tons of plutonium annually. Our analysis shows that, with optimum use of available at-reactor and away-from-reactor storage …