SAMPLE PRESENTATION FOR CSIS

THE NONPROLIFERATION IMPLICATIONS OF JAPAN’S FUEL CYCLE DECISIONS Sharon Squassoni Director, Proliferation Prevention Program Center for Strategic & International Studies NONPROLIFERATION IMPLICATIONS OF JAPAN’S FUEL CYCLE DECISIONS November 21, 2014 CSIS Headquarters

Outline for today  Genesis of CSIS-Hitotsubashi University project  What’s happening in Japan now  Tokyo workshop (September 17, 2014)  Discussion

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Status of Japan’s nuclear programs  Reactors: None restarted yet, but permission given for Sendai 1, 2  Enrichment: New centrifuges introduced 2012/13 (75 t/SWU);

another 450 t/SWU scheduled for March 2016  Reprocessing: Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant restart ~ March 2016  Fast reactor program: Monju for R&D

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Reactor Review Status

Tokyo Workshop  Aim: Bring together experts to explore alternative paths for Japan’s

fuel cycle  

Japanese and U.S. Industry, government (& former government), nonproliferation

 Enhance understanding from both sides  Products – www.csis.org/program/post-Fukushima

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Some questions we considered  Technical, political, legal, economic drivers of SNF    

management Japanese public perceptions (safety, not proliferation concerns) Disconnect between perceptions of what was desirable versus what would happen Issue of latent nuclear weapons capability Actions Japan could take to improve transparency

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