(2)Loading begins of MOX fuel returning to Britain

(2)Loading begins of MOX fuel returning to Britain

TAKAHAMA, Japan - One of eight cylinders containing plutonium-uranium mixed oxide (MOX) fuel is loaded aboard the British nuclear-fuel transport ship Pacific Pintail at Kansai Electric Power Co.'s Takahama nuclear plant in Fukui Prefecture on July 4.

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