Power companies have announced that as much as 6.5 tons of plutonium will be burned annually at nuclear plants after the so-called pluthermal power-generation project gets under way.
The 11 companies released for the first time their plans on how they will use plutonium, hoping to address possible domestic and overseas concerns that Japan may hold a surplus inventory of a key ingredient for nuclear weapons.
But the plans fall short of providing concrete figures to convince critics the nation will consume through peaceful purposes all the plutonium it keeps and produces.
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