TOKYO Japan is preparing to start up a massive nuclear-fuel reprocessingplant over the objections of the Obama administration, which fears the move may stoke a broader race for nuclear technologies and even weapons in North Asia and the Middle East.
The nuclear industry is going belly up due to several very high profile failures -Fukushima, a fuelreprocessingplant explosion in with fatality in France, a pending plant closure due to radioactive leaks in the US, Germany, Italy, Switzerland and Denmark all announcing plans to shut down all nuclear activities, and India, and several other countries announcing moratoriums pending safety investigations and reports.