NRA safety review continues for RFS spent fuel storage facility in Aomori

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Commissioners of Japan's Nuclear Regulation Authority discussedNRA’s safety review of Recyclable-Fuel Storage Co.’s interim spent fuelstorage project with RFS executives for the first time August 6, but itremains uncertain when NRA's safety assessment might be concluded.RFS completed construction in August 2013 of the storage facilityat Mutsu City in Aomori prefecture. The building is designed to storefor its operational life of 50 years some 288 vertical metal casks with acombined capacity of 3,000 metric tons of heavy metal of spent fuel.Tokyo Electric Power Co. owns 80% of RFS to store spent fuel fromits Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant. Japan Atomic Power Co., which ownsthe rest of RFS, plans to store pressurized water reactor spent fuelfrom its 1,160-MW Tsuruga-2.