Subject: ＥＥＥ会議（Re: 東海再処理工場のPu計量誤差問題）
Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 11:18:54 +0900
From: "金子　熊夫" <kkaneko@eagle.ocn.ne.jp>

各位

東海再処理工場のプルトニウム計量誤差問題に関しては、その後海外でも盛んに報道
されておりますので、これ以上火を広げないために、小生も国際Ｅメール会議等の場
で適宜反論や解説をしております。その中の１つをご参考までに。
金子熊夫

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With reference to the report on the "missing plutonium" of the Tokai
Reprocessing Plant (Ibaragi-ken, Japan), recently reported by the New
York Times, Financial Times, etc. :

You may be interested in the statement made by the International Atomic
Energy Agency on January 28, from which the following is excerpted.
The full version of the statement is available at:

http://www.iaea.org/worldatom/Press/P_release/

It is at the top of the press releases recently issued by the IAEA,
under the heading "New Measurement Techniques Correct PU
Inventory in Japanese Reprocessing Plant" (28 January 2003).

Regards,

Prof. Kumao KANEKO,
President, The Japan Council on Energy, Environment & Security,
Tokyo, Japan

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The IAEA has recognized for some time that the amount of nuclear material
transferred to waste storage had not been adequately measured in the past
and has worked with the facility operators and State authorities to
introduce improved measurement techniques. IAEA Director General, Dr.
Mohamed ElBaradei stressed however, that "the Agency remains confident
in its conclusion that no nuclear material has been diverted from the
facility".
This conclusion is based on a range of activities under the NPT Safeguards
Agreement between the Agency and Japan, as well as under the Additional
Protocol to that Agreement which gives the Agency broad access to
nuclear fuel-cycle related information and locations.