Recycled nuclear fuel arrives at Ikata power plant in Shikoku

Recycled nuclear fuel arrives at Ikata power plant in Shikoku

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Recycled nuclear fuel carried from France is unloaded from a cargo ship near Shikoku Electric Power Co.'s Ikata plant in Ehime Prefecture on May 27. Shikoku Electric plans to start using the plutonium-uranium mixed oxide, or MOX, fuel at the No. 3 reactor at the plant in January to launch so-called pluthermal, or plutonium-thermal, power generation in February. (Kyodo)

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