Japan power companies face surging nuclear fuel recycling costs

File photo taken in June 2010 shows a mixed oxide fuel cask being unloaded from a transport vessel that arrived at Kansai Electric Power Co.'s Takahama nuclear plant in Takahama in Japan's Fukui Prefecture. Kyodo News learned on Dec. 16, 2017 that the cost of recycling spent nuclear fuel has surged since Japan started using such fuel in 1999, adding to questions about the economics of nuclear fuel reprocessing. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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