Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD)
January 2003 - Japan Special Weapons News
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- JAPAN / KOIZUMI POLICY VOA 31 Jan 2003 -- Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi has called for an all-out push on revamping the nation's economy during his annual policy speech to parliament. As V-O-A's Amy Bickers reports from Tokyo, he also pledged Japan will work closely with the United States and South Korea to resolve the nuclear stand-off with North Korea.
- New Measurement Techniques Correct PU Inventory In Japanese Reprocessing Plant IAEA 29 January 2003 -- At its briefing to the Japan Atomic Energy Commission on 28 January 2003, the Japan Safeguards Office (JSGO) of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) announced that, due to the introduction of more precise sampling and analytical measurement techniques for measuring plutonium in the high active liquid waste (HALW) storage tanks at the Tokai Reprocessing Plant (TRP), the Japan Nuclear Cycle Development Institute (JNC) is correcting the amount of plutonium declared in past accountancy reports to the IAEA. The corrected amounts are expected to be in line with IAEA's own independent verification data and based on measurement methodologies endorsed by the IAEA.
- Nuclear material in Japan incorrectly measured in past, IAEA confirms UN News Centre 29 Jan 2003 -- Following Japan's recent announcement that it is correcting the amount of plutonium previously declared to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the United Nations watchdog has acknowledged that the amount of nuclear material transferred to waste storage in that country had not been adequately measured in the past
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