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Article: Aomori OKs MOX fuel plant to be built in Rokkasho, to sign contract.
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- Kyodo News International (Tokyo, Japan)
- Article date:
- April 14, 2005
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Apr. 14--AOMORI, Japan -- Aomori Gov. Shingo Mimura accepted Japan Nuclear Fuel Ltd.'s request Thursday to build a plant to process plutonium-uranium mixed oxide (MOX) fuel in the village of Rokkasho.
JNFL is expected to hold an executive board meeting Friday to approve a draft contract from Aomori Prefecture, paving way for the two sides to sign the agreement along with Rokkasho as early as the beginning of next week.
According to Mimura, Aomori Prefecture and Rokkasho will each receive 980 million yen in subsidies annually for two years from fiscal 2006 for hosting the facility as stipulated under electricity provision laws.
The MOX Fuel ...