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	Japan Update July 16, 2018

	Japan's   'plutonium exception'  under fire as nuclear pact extended TOKYO -- Japan will continue   to be the sole non-nuclear -weapons state allowed to use plutonium for peaceful  purposes after its nuclear  cooperation agreement with the  U.S. renews automatically on  Monday. Without a new pact, the  agreement forged three  decades ago could be terminated  by either side with six months’  notice, a state of affairs  that leaves Japan in an  “extremely unstable situation,” according to Foreign Minister  Taro Kono. Other countries have protested  the country’s so-called plutonium exception, with China arguing  that it creates a path for a nuclear-armed Japan.
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