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英国核燃料有限公司(BNFL)的日本和德国的主要用户,公开确认支持BNFL的热氧化物后处理厂(THORP)。 上个月,十位日本议员联名致函英国议会,呼吁两国政府“就有关THORP的各种问题重新谈判”,以避免分离多余的钚。 作为响应,日本海外后处理委员会(ORC)秘书长Takeo Matsunaga先生代表十家日本电力公司致函BNFL,阐明了日本关于乏燃料后处理方面的政策。信中说:“日本政府的基本策略是,凡日本核电站产生的乏燃料应当进行后处理,并且所有回收的钚再投入民间与和平利用。”Matsunaga先生表示,所有经THORP回收的钚将全部用于日
BNFL’s major users in Japan and Germany have openly confirmed BNFL’s thermal oxide reprocessing plant (THORP). Last month, ten Japanese parliament members jointly wrote a letter to the British Parliament urging the two governments “to renegotiate various issues concerning THORP” so as to avoid the separation of excess plutonium. In response, Mr. Takeo Matsunaga, Secretary-General of the Japan Overseas Reprocessing Committee (ORC), wrote to BNFL on behalf of ten Nippon Electric Power companies, clarifying Japan’s policy on spent fuel reprocessing. The letter said: “The basic strategy of the Japanese government is that any spent fuel generated by Japan’s nuclear power plants should be reprocessed and all recovered plutonium reintroduced into civilian areas and used peacefully.” Mr. Matsunaga said that all THORP-recovered plutonium would be fully used On the day