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June 28, 2013

Japan gets first MOX nuclear shipment since Fukushima
Takahama, Japan (AFP) June 27, 2013
A vessel under armed guard and loaded with reprocessed nuclear fuel from France arrived at a Japanese port on Thursday, the first such shipment since the Fukushima disaster as utilities lobby to restart their atomic reactors. The cargo of mixed oxide (MOX), a blend of plutonium and uranium, was offloaded at the Takahama nuclear plant on the western coast of central Japan, after the ship arrived there early in the morning, an AFP journalist said. The fuel left the French port of Cherbourg in mid ... read more

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