Japan Nuclear Fuel Ltd. has decided to delay the start of full-scale commercial operations at a spent nuclear fuel reprocessing plant in Rokkasho, Aomori Prefecture, by two more years to 2012. This, the 18th postponement of the project, will leave it 15 years behind schedule. The plant was originally slated to begin operating in 1997.
The reprocessing plant extracts plutonium from spent nuclear fuel and is designed to play a key role in the nuclear fuel recycling system Japan is trying (...)
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