Science agency revokes JCO's business license

Science agency revokes JCO's business license

TOKYO, Japan - Hiroharu Kitani (L), president of JCO Co., the operator of the closed Tokaimura uranium processing plant in Ibaraki Prefecture, receives official notification on March 28 that the Science and Technology Agency is canceling the firm's business license. The notice, presented by Kaoru Mamiya, director general of the agency's Nuclear Safety Bureau, said JCO was responsible for Japan's worst nuclear accident at its uranium-processing plant in Tokaimura last September.

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