Pacific Pintail with MOX fuel leaves for Britain

Pacific Pintail with MOX fuel leaves for Britain

TAKAHAMA, Japan - The British nuclear-fuel transport ship Pacific Pintail leaves a nuclear plant of Kansai Electric Power Co. in Takahama, Fukui Prefecture, for Britain on July 4 with eight containers of plutonium-uranium mixed oxide (MOX) fuel. The MOX fuel has been stored at the plant since 1999 when documentation on the fuel was found to have been doctored.

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