Japanese utility to buy MOX fuel for first time since Fukushima accident

摘要

Kansai Electric Power Co. has said it will purchase mixed-oxide, or MOX,rnfuel to operate Takahama-3 and -4 from Japanese fuel supplier NuclearrnFuel Industries Ltd., marking the first purchase of MOX fuel by arnJapanese utility since the 2011 accident at Tokyo Electric Power Co.’srnFukushima I plant.rnKansai Electric said in a statement July 31 that it will procure 32 fuelrnassemblies — 16 each for Takahama-3 and -4 — from Nuclear FuelrnIndustries, a supplier that outsources the production of MOX fuel tornAreva’s Melox facility in France.