Japan Atomic Energy Agency

Tokai research and development center
Nuclear Fuel Cycle Engineering Laboratories

4-33, Muramatsu, Tokai-mura, Naka-gun, Ibaraki,
Japan 319-1194
tel;029-282-1111

Spent fuel which has been used at a nuclear power plant contains residual uranium, newly produced plutonium, and high-level radioactive waste.
At the Tokai Reprocessing Plant, reprocessing technology has been developed to separate uranium and plutonium from spent fuel and to recover them for the purpose of making the efficient use of available uranium resources.
The recovered uranium and plutonium can be reused as new fuel, therefore, the reprocessing plays a key role in the nuclear fuel cycle.
The Tokai Reprocessing Plant had reprocessed about 88t of ATR(Fugen) spent fuel, about 644t of BWR(s), about 376t of PWR(s) and about 9t of JPDR(s), which amount to about 1,052t of spent fuel reprocessed at the end of March 2006.

STRP will provide comprehensive assistance to the private sector, and will continue research and development toward the advancement of reprocessing technology, carrying out the reprocessing of high burn-up fuel and Fugen fuel.