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U.S.-China Scholarly Recoupling: The Path Forward
March 28, 2024 • 9:00 – 10:00 am EDT
Japan has been a leader within the nuclear nonproliferation regime for decades, but is also the only non-nuclear-weapon state with both uranium enrichment and spent fuel reprocessing -- two sensitive capabilities that can make fuel for nuclear reactors or fissile material for bombs. With dependence on foreign energy resources hovering at 95%, Japan made closing the nuclear fuel cycle a key element of its energy security policy many decades ago. After the March 2011 accident at the Fukushima nuclear power plant, however, the future of nuclear power in Japan seems uncertain, raising questions also about the future of Japan's fuel cycle activities.