Joint Convention on the Safety of Spent Fuel Management and on the Safety of Radioactive Waste Management, National Report of Japan for the Third Review Meeting

Nuclear facilities in Japan are as listed in the following table, the details of which are described in Section D. Operating nuclear power plant 55 Nuclear power plant under construction 4 Nuclear power reactor at decommissioning stage 2 Nuclear fuel fabrication facility 5 Spent fuel reprocessing facility 2 Radioactive waste storage facility 2 Radioactive waste disposal facility 2 Operating research reactor 15 Research reactor at decommissioning stage 8 Nuclear fuel material utilization facility* 16 *: The facilities governed by Article 41 of the Enforcement ordinance of the Law for the Regulation of Nuclear Source Material, Nuclear Fuel Material and Nuclear Reactors. The current status of the preparation of radioactive waste disposal regulation system and the over view of spent fuel and radioactive waste management are shown in Table A1-1 and TableA1-2 respectively.