Shipment of nuclear fuel gets underway

Shipment of nuclear fuel gets underway

TOKAIMURA, Japan - The first full-scale shipment of spent nuclear fuel to a reprocessing plant in Aomori Prefecture gets underway Dec. 15 with the loading on a cargo ship of about 11 tons of spent fuel from a nuclear power plant in Tokaimura, Ibaraki Prefecture.

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