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Trouwens hier nog een stuk erover,Japan, IAEA discussing large amount of unaccounted-for nuke materials
TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan has started backstage talks with the International Atomic Energy Agency on the discovery of unaccounted-for or unreported enriched uranium and plutonium in large quantities of nuclear waste disposed of by Japanese facilities, hoping to ward off international criticism with an early report to the IAEA, senior government officials said Wednesday.
In October last year, nuclear substances, unaccounted for at that time, were found in waste at the Japan Atomic Energy Agency's Oarai Research and Development Center in Ibaraki Prefecture, the officials said.
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Maar gezien dat het om "bondgenoot" Japan gaat zal er wel weinig gebeuren...Thursday, Dec. 15, 2011
IAEA not told of enriched nuclear waste
Kilos of uranium, plutonium found at state-run sites comes as a shock
Kyodo
The government failed to tell the International Atomic Energy Agency about unaccounted-for or unreported amounts of enriched plutonium and uranium it has found in nuclear waste produced by its own facilities over the past year, Chief Cabinet Secretary Osamu Fujimura admitted Thursday....
After acknowledging the situation, which initially surfaced earlier in the day in media reports quoting unnamed government sources, Fujimura said the discoveries will be swiftly reported to the IAEA, in an apparent effort to ward off international criticism.
....Under the IAEA's safeguards system, the international organization, tasked with promoting the peaceful use of nuclear energy, verifies the correctness and completeness of the declarations made by nations about their nuclear materials and activities. Nations are required to maintain accounting records on nuclear materials and report them to the IAEA to prevent them from being used in weapons.
