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Page 1: Nuclear power plantSpent nuclear fuel High level radioactive waste PlutoniumFast breeder reactor plutonium Reprocessing Uranium

Nuclear power plant Spent nuclear fuel

High levelradioactive

waste

PlutoniumFast breeder reactor

plutonium

Reprocessing

Uranium

Page 2: Nuclear power plantSpent nuclear fuel High level radioactive waste PlutoniumFast breeder reactor plutonium Reprocessing Uranium

Nuclear power plant Spent nuclear fuel

High levelradioactive

waste

PlutoniumFast breeder reactor

plutonium

? 45 tonnes

Final Disposal X

Uranium

Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant8 tonnes/year

Reprocessing

Page 3: Nuclear power plantSpent nuclear fuel High level radioactive waste PlutoniumFast breeder reactor plutonium Reprocessing Uranium

Nuclear power plant Spent nuclear fuel

High levelradioactive

waste

PlutoniumFast breeder reactor

plutonium

? 45 tonnes

Mix Oxide fuel (MOX)

Final Disposal X

Reprocessing

Uranium

Plutonium is recovered through spentfuel reprocessing and mixed with uranium for use in a thermal reactor.

Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant8 tonnes/year

Page 4: Nuclear power plantSpent nuclear fuel High level radioactive waste PlutoniumFast breeder reactor plutonium Reprocessing Uranium

Uranium Nuclear power plant Spent nuclear fuel

High levelradioactive

waste

PlutoniumFast breeder reactor

plutonium

?Final Disposal X

Reprocessing

Page 5: Nuclear power plantSpent nuclear fuel High level radioactive waste PlutoniumFast breeder reactor plutonium Reprocessing Uranium

• Regional Monopoly

• Power generation and Power grid

• Pricing

TEPCO

DPJ LDP

Media

Scholars

METI** Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry

Union Vote $

Graduate Employment

$

Advertising and

Sponsorship

Amakudari‘Descent fromheaven’ – civil servants entering the private sector following retirement

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Regional Monopoly

Grid

Gas

SolarWind

Nuclear

Grid

Power Generation

The Structure of Power Companies

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Pricing

Profit (3%)

Cost

• Overhead• Maintenance• Construction• Wages

MarketPricing

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• Feed in Tariff

• Independent Grid

• Market Mechanism

• Local Government Initiative

• Natural Energy Foundation (Mega Solar)

Issues for the Future

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Akita Prefecture

$1b/year

Electricity (nuclear)

Akita Prefecture

Local bank

Wind and Solar power

Renewable (Local)

Consumer“Akita komachi” rice

$800m/year

“Akita komachi” rice

$800m/year

Outside Akita Prefecture