Philosophy of the Nuclear Fuel Cycle Policy

摘要

The Neckar River was swollen. Just when you thought it was going to be fine, all of a sudden there would be a shower. My friend looked up at the sky, and shrugged his shoulders. It was the summer of 1997 that I visited Germany in such weather conditions, flying over to Frankfurt in order to look at how MOX fuel (uranium/plutonium mixed oxide) was being produced and used. On the next morning, luckily having the time to spare, I took a car to Heidelberg. The University of Heidelberg, Germany's most ancient, has been home to many Japanese scholars including Kuki Shuzo, Abe Jiro and Miki Kiyoshi. Every time I read such men's accounts of their time studying overseas, I felt some indefinable kind of nostalgia.