【《日本原子》1994年10月号第12页报道】1994年10月1日,日本原子能研究所(JAERI)成立了一个突击工作组,进行关于石化钚燃料的研究与开发工作。该小组将研究如何从拆卸的核武器中取出钚,并把它作为轻水堆的燃料。该燃料将由核弹头的钚与各种氧化物(锆、铝、镁和钍)混合制成。由于这种燃料的成分在化学上是稳定的,因而要通过后处理反萃取钚是十分困难的。这种钚燃料可在现有的MOX燃料生产厂生产,并可直接装入现有的轻水堆,因此没有必要为燃烧核弹头钚建造新的设施。 【Atomic Atomic Energy】 October 1994 No.12 Page 1 On 1 October 1994, Japan’s Atomic Energy Agency (JAERI) formed an assault working group to conduct research and development work on fossil fuel plutonium. The team will study how to remove plutonium from demolished nuclear weapons and use it as fuel for light water reactors. The fuel will be made of plutonium from the nuclear warhead mixed with various oxides (zirconium, aluminum, magnesium and thorium). Since the fuel composition is chemically stable, it is very difficult to back-extract plutonium through post-processing. This plutonium fuel can be produced at the existing MOX fuel fabrication facility and can be directly loaded into existing light water reactors, so there is no need to build new facilities for burning nuclear warhead plutonium.