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_bS66 1993
100 1 _aSolomon, Kenneth A.,
_d1947-
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aPlutonium for Japan's nuclear reactors :
_bpaying both the proliferation and dollar price to assure long-term fuel supply /
_cKenneth Alvin Solomon.
264 1 _aSanta Monica, CA :
_bRAND,
_c1993.
300 _axi, 32 pages :
_billustrations ;
_c28 cm
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
337 _aunmediated
_bn
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
338 _avolume
_bnc
_2rdacarrier
500 _a"Project on Avoiding Nuclear War: Managing Conflict in the Nuclear Age."
500 _a"RAND/UCLA Center for Soviet Studies."
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references.
520 _aAdequate supplies of electricity have allowed Japan to make impressive economic advances. But Japan can sustain these advances only with assured supplies of fuel. To this end, it diversifies both its type of power producing facilities and its sources of fuel. Nuclear power provides Japan 30% of its electricity today and by the end of the century it will grow to 40%. Japan is facing both an opportunity and a dilemma. Japan's opportunity to convert its nuclear power from the conventional uranium based fuel to the more expensive mix of plutonium and uranium fuel extends its fuel supply by up to ten years at a substantial dollar cost as well as a potential nuclear weapons proliferation cost. This study estimates that if Japan elects to fuel its reactors with mixed plutonium and uranium oxide the dollar cost alone would run from $135 million to $800 million per year over the conventional uranium fuel. This cost is compounded by the fact that plutonium - unlike reactor grade uranium - is weapons usable. Plutonium in the hands of Japan may attract other countries to also want plutonium. This study concludes that one means of assuring energy and minimizing the potential for weapons proliferation is to develop an international nuclear fuel bank that could supply countries with energy credits.
530 _aAlso available on the internet via WWW in PDF format.
588 _aDescription based on print version record.
650 0 _aNuclear energy
_zJapan.
650 0 _aNuclear fuels
_zJapan.
710 2 _aRand Corporation.
710 2 _aRand/UCLA Center for Soviet Studies.
710 2 _aCarnegie Corporation of New York.
856 4 1 _yOnline Access
_u http://www.rand.org/pubs/monograph_reports/2006/MR186.pdf
999 _c599292
_d599292