Chief Cabinet Secretary Katsunobu Kato, right, attends a meeting with the governor of Aomori prefecture, northern Japan, home to Japan’s pending nuclear fuel reprocessing plant, at the prime ministers office in Tokyo Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2020. Japan’s government said Wednesday it will pursue its nuclear fuel recycling program that would involve extracting plutonium from spent fuel, despite international concerns about the country’s already huge plutonium stockpile and lack of prospects for effectively consuming it as nuclear fuel. At left is Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry Hiroshi Kajiyama. (Kyodo News via AP)