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US presses Japan to hand back 300 kg of plutonium
Business Standard ^ | January 27, 2014

Posted on 01/26/2014 6:24:38 PM PST by TigerLikesRooster

US presses Japan to hand back 300 kg of plutonium

IANS | Tokyo January 27, 2014 Last Updated at 04:34 IST

Japan's key ally the US has been pressing the country to return more than 300 kg of mostly weapon-grade plutonium that it exported to Japan for research purposes during the Cold War era, media reported.

The plutonium that is stored at a fast critical assembly in Tokaimura in Japan's Ibaraki prefecture could be used to produce 40-50 nuclear weapons, reported Japan's Kyodo News, citing unnamed Japanese and US government officials, according to Xinhua.

Japan has strongly resisted the demand raised by US President Barack Obama's administration, but it finally gave in to repeated demands, Kyodo said.

The two countries since last year have been seriously discussing the issue as the US plans to reach an accord with Japan at the third nuclear security summit in March in the Netherlands, according to the report.

The fast critical assembly belonging to the Japan Atomic Energy Agency is the country's only critical assembly designed to study characteristics of fast reactors.

The Japanese ministry of education, culture, sports, science and technology and other researchers have argued that the plutonium in question is needed for research and vital for producing good data, said Kyodo.

At present, Japan has another estimated 44 tonnes of plutonium, but its quality is not on par with the plutonium used for research purposes, Kyodo quoted a Japanese expert as saying.


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Japan; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: japan; plutonium
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1 posted on 01/26/2014 6:24:38 PM PST by TigerLikesRooster
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To: TigerLikesRooster; sushiman; Ronin; AmericanInTokyo; gaijin; struggle; DTogo; GATOR NAVY; Iris7; ...

P!


2 posted on 01/26/2014 6:25:15 PM PST by TigerLikesRooster (The way to crush the bourgeois is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

So he trusts Iran with nukes but not Japan.


3 posted on 01/26/2014 6:26:38 PM PST by Lurkina.n.Learnin (This is not just stupid, we're talking Democrat stupid here.)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Barry wants to give it to the Mooselim Brotherhood?


4 posted on 01/26/2014 6:27:15 PM PST by MeshugeMikey ("When you meet the unbelievers, strike at their necks..." -- Qur'an 47:4)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

It seems that he is siding with China on this.


5 posted on 01/26/2014 6:28:34 PM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: Cicero

That was my thought, too.


6 posted on 01/26/2014 6:30:23 PM PST by Dalberg-Acton
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Will not happen! Japan is looking after Japan, no one else maters at this moment.


7 posted on 01/26/2014 6:30:29 PM PST by foundedonpurpose
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To: TigerLikesRooster

How does Obama plan to dispose of it?

unilateral disarmament is his dream and eventual dissolution of the USA and rise of United Socialist States of America.

The dots are quickly coming into view - to start connecting them is our job.


8 posted on 01/26/2014 6:32:20 PM PST by elpadre (AfganistaMr Obama said the goal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-hereQaeda" and its allies.)
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Reevaluating America’s greatest threats 70 years later...


9 posted on 01/26/2014 6:34:50 PM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

The penalties for being a faithful ally to the US are pretty severe these days


10 posted on 01/26/2014 6:36:22 PM PST by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat Party!)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

I say let’m keep it. They are going to need it with China becoming more aggressive with each passing moment.


11 posted on 01/26/2014 6:37:28 PM PST by 3Fingas (Sons and Daughters for Freedom and Rededication to the Principles of the U.S. Constitution...)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

With the way China is acting? Hell, Japan would be foolish and suicidal to give up their plutonium. In fact, they’re foolish if they are not at this very minute building nuclear weapons to minimize the possibility of Chinese aggression—the old “mutually assured destruction” strategy (it worked for us and the Soviets).


12 posted on 01/26/2014 6:41:32 PM PST by House Atreides
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Possession is 9/10ths.


13 posted on 01/26/2014 6:41:41 PM PST by Manic_Episode (F the Whigs)
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To: TigerLikesRooster
Japan's response:

"Okay. As soon as you return all of Germany's gold."

Sounds good, doesn't it?

14 posted on 01/26/2014 6:41:49 PM PST by CivilWarBrewing
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To: TigerLikesRooster
it seems, pResident 0'ButtCrack, clearing the board (nuclear mat'l.) for the ChiComs.

15 posted on 01/26/2014 6:42:27 PM PST by skinkinthegrass (The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun..0'Caligula / 0'Reid / 0'Pelosi)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

On this matter, Obama has become the mouthpiece of China.


16 posted on 01/26/2014 6:47:31 PM PST by lee martell
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To: lee martell

Money talks.


17 posted on 01/26/2014 6:48:17 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: TigerLikesRooster

China is behind this. They don’t want Japan to have
nukes as it poses a threat to their plans for dominance.
Thus they yank the strings on this administration to try
and get that plutonium out of Japan....wouldn’t surprise me if Obungler promised to give that material to China, he’s that much of a traitor.


18 posted on 01/26/2014 6:50:35 PM PST by nvscanman
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Japan should tell Hussein to take a long walk off a short pier.


19 posted on 01/26/2014 6:51:04 PM PST by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: nvscanman

China’s wanted revenge ever since 1945.


20 posted on 01/26/2014 6:52:13 PM PST by dfwgator
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