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Japan fudges its reporting to IAEA on plutonium

secret-agent-Smflag-japanJapan underreports 80 nuclear bombs-worth of plutonium to IAEA Rt.com : June 08, 2014 Japan has failed to mention having about 640 kg (1,411 lbs) of unused plutonium in reports it submitted to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in 2012 and 2013. The unreported amount is enough to make about 80 nuclear bombs.

The missing 640 kilograms Japan kept as Mixed oxide (MOX) fuel, aplutonium-uranium mixture that could be burned in a reactor. It was found in an offline reactor in a nuclear plant in Saga Prefecture in the southern Japanese town of Genkai.

The MOX fuel was loaded into the No. 3 reactor of Kyushu Electric Power Co.’s Genkai nuclear plant in March 2011 during its regular checkup, shortly before the Fukushima Nuclear disaster happened later that month. It was then taken out two years later as the reactor remained offline.
The unreported plutonium was first found by Kakujoho, a nuclear information website……..http://rt.com/news/164504-japan-nuclear-ieae-reports/

June 11, 2014 - Posted by | Japan, secrets,lies and civil liberties

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