Plebiscite on MOX fuel use at Niigata plant planned in May

Plebiscite on MOX fuel use at Niigata plant planned in May

NIIGATA, Japan - Hiroo Shinada, mayor of the village of Kariwa in Niigata Prefecture on the Sea of Japan coast, announced April 24 his village will hold a plebiscite May 27 on a plan to use plutonium-uranium mixed oxide (MOX) fuel at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant of Tokyo Electric Power Co. The announcement followed the Kariwa village assembly's passage of an ordinance to hold such a plebiscite.

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