The memorandum questions Director General Yatabe's certainty about the second reprocessing plant, citing a conclusion of Japanese Atomic Energy Research Institute's draft report that Japan does not need the second plant.
November 12, 1980
State Department Telegram 302395 to US Embassy Japan, 'Japanese Reprocessing Plans'
The telegram shows the State Department requesting the US Embassy in Tokyo to learn more about Japanese thinking on a second reprocessing plant and why Japanese MITI and JAERIA held different views on this issue.
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NARA, RG 59, Subject Files of Ambassador Gerard C. Smith, box 17, Japan (January-June 1980)
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