Alarm over nuke stockpiles

High-risk cargo: Workers loading a large canister containing plutonium-uranium mixed oxide fuel onto a British ship at Kansai Electric’s power plant in Takahama in Fukui prefecture, western Japan. — AFP

CHINA is justified in raising concerns over Japan’s excessive accumulation of sensitive nuclear materials and its imbalance in the supply and demand of nuclear materials.

And the international community has good reason to ask how the island country is going to use its huge stockpile of plutonium.