New Progress with Japan's Pu-thermal Project: After 5 Years - Construction of Tsuruga Unit No. 3 and 4 Agreed -

摘要

Following the press conference on March 15, with the announcement from Fukui Prefectural Governor Issei Nishikawa, agreeing to the use of MOX fuel (uranium and plutonium mixed oxide fuel) in reactor No.3 and No.4 at the Kansai Electric Power Co. Inc.(KEPCO)'s Takahama Nuclear Power Station, which had previously been a cause for serious concern, Governor Nishikawa and the Mayor Riichi Imai of Takahama City approved the use of the MOX fuel on March 20. It means that the use of MOX fuel in the light water reactors (a Pu-thermal project), which had been at an impasse since 1999, can now press ahead.