Decommissioning practice and issues

Nuclear facilities in the process of being decommissioned in Japan include Tokai-1 NPP of the JAPC, the Advanced Thermal Reactor ‘Fugen’ of the JAEA and the Plutonium Fuel Fabrication Facility (PFFF) of the JAEA. Hamaoka Nuclear Power Station Reactor’s No. 1 and 2 of Chubu Electric Power Company shut down in January 2009 and their decommissioning plans were approved by the METI in November 2009.