The New U.S.-ROK civil nuclear cooperation agreement

Tazaki, Makiko; Shimizu, Ryo; Suda, Kazunori

JAEA-Review 2016-019, 118 Pages, 2016/10

JAEA-Review-2016-019.pdf:4.73MB

In November 2015, the new nuclear cooperation agreement between US and ROK entered into force. A top priority of their negotiation for revising their old agreement was whether or not the US grants its advanced consent to the ROK engagement in uranium enrichment and pyroprocessing of US-origin nuclear material. Under the new agreement, in principle, the ROK is able to conduct uranium enrichment and reprocessing at certain facilities prescribed in Annexes III and II to the Agreed Minute of the new agreement. However, as of the date of validation of the agreement, no facilities are prescribed in both Annexes. It means that the US does not grant its advanced consent to ROK such activities. The new agreement allows the US adherence of its nuclear nonproliferation policy, while it also allows ROK future possibility of engaging such activities. Such result can be analyzed that the new agreement was a product of reality-based and maximal compromise among the US and ROK.

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Arii, Yoshio

JNC TN9200 99-009, 432 Pages, 1999/07

JNC-TN9200-99-009.pdf:17.27MB

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PNC TN1600 95-001, 641 Pages, 1995/05

PNC-TN1600-95-001.pdf:26.47MB

no abstracts in English

R&D results on ZrC-TRISO CFP in JAEA

Sasaki, Koei

no journal, , 

The information exchange meeting with KAERI is held once a year for the purpose of information exchange based on public information and this meeting was held from 5/20 to 5/21 at National Jeju University in Korea. Sasaki reported research and development results of ZrC coated fuel in JAEA.

Attractive features of HTGR as SMR

Nishihara, Tetsuo

no journal, , 

The use of nuclear energy in the non-power sector is essential in addition to the use of renewable energy for achevement of greenhouse gas emission reduction target. Flexible electric power sources are needed since renewable energy output is an unstable. JAEA consideres to use a high temperature gas reactor cogeneration system which can absorb fluctuations in renewable energy and provide stable power supply. Even if it's used as a regulated power supply, the generation unit price from the high temperature gas reactor cogeneration system is constant but the hydrogen cost increases by 19% due to a decrease in the operation rate of the H production plant.

Current R&D status of iodine-sulfur process in JAEA

Tanaka, Nobuyuki

no journal, , 

The information exchange meeting with KAERI is held once a year for the purpose of information exchange based on public information and this meeting was held from 5/20 to 5/21 at National Jeju University in Korea. Tanaka reported current status of IS process research and development in JAEA.