Japanese Programme

After completion of the Japanese programme, the third configuration COMPACT could be studied in MASURCA. 

In Japan the same considerations apply but a longer-term view is taken. Continued investment is to be expected on the grounds that it will pay back on a timescale of decades. The Japanese programme has suffered a delay as a result of the MONJU fire, but it is unlikely that the event will alter the long-term objectives or the commitment to fast reactors. Thus the construction of demonstration reactors is to be expected in the first decades of the next century. 

In 1942 the Japanese overran Malaya and the then Dutch East Indies to cut off the main sources of natural rubber for the United States and the British Commonwealth. Because of this the US Government initiated a crash programme for the installation of plants for the manufacture of a rubber from butadiene and styrene. This product, then known as GR-S (Government Rubber-Styrene), provided at that time an inferior substitute for natural rubber but, with a renewed availability of natural rubber at the end of the war, the demand for GR-S slumped considerably. (Today the demand for SBR (as GR-S is now known) has increased with the great improvements in quality that have been made and SBR is today the principal synthetic rubber). 

Whilst not recommended for routine administration, vaeoines additional to those represented in the juvenile programme are available for individuals in special risk categories. These categories relate to oeeupational risks or risks associated with travel abroad. Such immunization protocols include those directed against cholera, typhoid, meningitis (types A, C), anthrax, hepatitis A and B, influenza, Japanese encephahtis, rabies, tick-borne encephalitis, and yellow fever. 

Wh/dm3 and 3500 cycles for the former, and 180 Wh/kg, 360 Wh/dm3 and 500 cycles for the latter. The project has a three-phase programme the first phase, already complete, involved the production of 10 Wh prototypes the second, fixed for the year 1998, requires the scaling up to prototypes of 100 Wh and the third, expected by the year 2001, is concerned with improvements in reliability of the 100 Wh modules. A list of the Japanese companies involved in the LIBES project and their chosen technologies is reported in Table 7.5. 

The United States had never ratified the Geneva Protocol, but nevertheless, President Roosevelt considered poison gas a barbarous weapon. Indeed, he had no intention, unlike his British counterpart, of authorising its use, much to the disappointment of the American Chemical Warfare Service. The American chemical weapons programme only thrived because of the fear of Japanese chemical warfare efforts indeed, American newspapers often printed reports of Japanese use of chemical warfare against the Chinese. Despite his reservations, Roosevelt issued a... 

At the time of the outbreak of the Second World War the aid of Professor Louis Fieser of Harvard University, a distinguished organic chemist, was enlisted. The Japanese invasion of the East Indies had cut off supplies of rubber which was crucial to the thickener for napalm. The research programme that followed, conducted at Harvard University, saw the first successful napalm detonations on the games field behind the football stadium - an excellent example of applied weapons research in the universities.55 The new napalm gel proved far superior to the original rubber-based gel, and napalm was used extensively by the United States in incendiary raids on Japan in the Second World War.56 Napalm was also used in Korea where it was called the United States best all round weapon 57 and, of course, it was used extensively in Vietnam. SSg-E6 Tom M. Jackson (Vietnam, 12 September 1970 to 12 September 1971) described watching napalm set off from only 50 yards away ... 

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