Research and development projects now under way with the Fugen Reactor are aimed at developing long-life, high performance fuels that will generate power more efficiently and reduce fuel costs. Fugen Reactor T he Japanese have acquired extensive reprocessing capability from France. In addition to the Tokai Reprocessing Plant, the Japanese are building the second largest reprocessing plant in the world in northern Japan using French and Japanese technology. One of the goals of this resource poor nation is to become as self sufficient as possible through the peaceful use of nuclear energy. T he Japanese and some European countries reprocess spent fuel .
Nuclear energy is a great energy source for all of mankind.
Japanese physicist T hey spend considerable resources on basic research and development in reactor and nuclear physics, physiological studies on radiation , irradiation tests on fuels and materials, and studies on the movement of radioactive materials in the environment and ecosystem. Top France F rench scientists were some of the principal pioneers in the nuclear field. In 1896, Henri Becquerel discovered radiation . Two years later, Marie and Pierre Curie discovered that uranium was radioactive . They also discovered the elements radium and polonium.