IAEA’s Response to Green Action’s Joint Open Letter to Director General Mohamed ElBaradei

PDF Version Japan Atomic Energy Commission Accepts Faulty Plutonium Utilization Plan of Japanese Electric Utilities 3 February 2006 Dr. Mohamed ElBaradeiDirector General,International Atomic Energy AgencyIAEA SecretariatHeadquarters OfficesA-1400 Vienna, Austria IAEA Board of Directorsc/o Ambassador Yukiya AmanoChairperson, IAEA Board of DirectorsPermanent Mission of Japan to the International Organizations in ViennaAndromeda Tower, Donau-City Strasse 6, A-1220Vienna, Austria 　 Dear Director General ElBaradei and IAEA Board of Governors: In our Petition of 5 January and follow-up letter of 11 January, we urged the IAEA Secretariat and Board of Governors to quickly take appropriate action before active testing begins at Japan’s Rokkasho reprocessing plant and plutonium is accumulated. This was to ensure that Japan…

Frédéric Patalagoity, President and Managing Director AREVA Japan Urban Toranomon, Bldg. 5F 1-16-4 Toranomon, Minato-ku Tokyo 105-0001 Japan July 21, 2016 Dear Frédéric Patalagoity, We are writing to you to express our disappointment and concerns over the use of AREVA produced MOX fuel in Japanese nuclear power plants. As you know we wrote to you on January 28th of this year to request details over the quality of plutonium mixed oxide fuel supplied to Japan, specifically Kansai Electric. We have yet to receive a response to this letter (also attached to this letter). As you will be aware the Ikata 3 reactor is due to restart operations shortly. Sixteen assemblies…

Frédéric Patalagoity, President and Managing Director AREVA Japan Urban Toranomon, Bld 5F 1-16-4 Toranomon, Minato-ku Tokyo 105-0001 Japan January 28th 2016 Dear Frédéric Patalagoity, We are writing to you to outline our concerns with the production standards, quality control and, ultimately, safety of AREVA plutonium MOX fuel produced for Japanese utilities. Specifically the planned use of 30 MOX assemblies in the Takahama reactor units 3&4, owned by Kansai Electric. As you will be aware it is fifteen years since the poor quality control and production standards of plutonium MOX fuel was first disclosed in the case of 8 MOX fuel assemblies manufactured by the then British Nuclear Fuels Limited (BNFL)…

Letter sent by Greenpeace, Green Action, and Citizens’ Nuclear Information Center concerning the plutonium of Japanese MOX fuel shipment Download PDF (80KB) Open Letter to Director General Dr. Mohamed ElBaradei International Atomic Energy Agency 2 March 2009 Dear Dr. ElBaradei, We are writing to warn you that the French state nuclear company, Areva, is actively denying the proliferation risks posed by reactor-grade plutonium contained in Mixed Oxide Fuel. The matter is an urgent one, as on March 6th 2009 a shipment of approximately 1.8 metric tons of plutonium contained in 65 assemblies of MOX fuel is scheduled to depart the port of Cherbourg bound for Japan.1 Our specific concerns are…

[Joint letter sent from Green Action, Citizens’ Nuclear Information Center, and Greenpeace Japan] Director General Mohamed ElBaradeiInternational Atomic Energy AgencyIAEA SecretariatHeadquarters OfficesA-1400 Vienna, Austria Re: ROKKASHO REPROCESSING PLANT AND JAPANESE ELECTRIC UTILITIES’ PLUTONIUM UTILIZATION PLANS Dear Director General ElBaradei: On 5 January 2006 we sent you a petition urging you to ensure that Japan does not breach its international commitment to the principle of “no surplus plutonium” and to quickly take appropriate action before active testing begins at Rokkasho and plutonium is accumulated. The following day the Federation of Electric Power Companies of Japan (FEPCO) published its Plutonium Utilization Plan. Attached please find a media briefing we issued today. It…