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Article: Japan Nuclear Fuel produces uranium-plutonium mixed oxides.
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- Kyodo News International (Tokyo, Japan)
- Article date:
- November 2, 2006
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Nov. 2--AOMORI -- Japan Nuclear Fuel Ltd. said Thursday it has produced uranium-plutonium mixed oxides on a commercial basis for the first time ever in Japan.
Japan Nuclear Fuel said the mixed oxide fuel, or MOX, were extracted at the company's spent nuclear fuel reprocessing plant in a nuclear fuel cycle complex in the village of Rokkasho, Aomori Prefecture, on the northern tip of Japan's largest main island of Honshu.
The mixed oxides will be further processed into fuel for use at existing nuclear reactors and at fast-breeder reactors in the future.
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