Total Transportation Management System

Japan has decided as national basic policy to reprocess spent nuclear fuel (SF) and to recycle plutonium and uranium from a viewpoint of effective utilization of uranium resources. Currently, a reprocessing plant in Tokai-mura is operated by Power Reactor and Nuclear Fuel Development Corp. (hereafter called PNC) and another reprocessing plant in Rokkasho-mura is under construction by Japan Nuclear Fuel Ltd. (hereafter called JNFL). The reprocessing plant in Rokkasho-mura is planned to receive SF of 400MIU/year in 1997 and 800MIU/year around the year 2000. The low-level radioactive waste (LL W) generated from nuclear power stations is buried in JNFVs LL W disposal center in Rokkasho-mura. The burial capacity of the disposal center will be expanded to the final apacity of about 3 million 200-liter drums. In addition, returned radioactive waste (RW) and natural uranium hexaflouride (UF6) are transported to the nuclear fuel cycle facilities in Rokkasho-mura.