MOX fuel shipment arrives at TEPCO's Niigata nuclear plant

MOX fuel shipment arrives at TEPCO's Niigata nuclear plant

KASHIWAZAKI, Japan - The British ship Pacific Pintail, carrying a cargo of plutonium-uranium mixed oxide (MOX) fuel, arrives at a port in Kariwa, Niigata Prefecture, on March 24 amid tight police security. The 5,271-ton cargo ship, which set sail from France in January with 28 containers of the highly toxic MOX fuel, docked at the private port of Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power station.

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