MOX fuel reaches Japan nuclear plant

MOX fuel reaches Japan nuclear plant

TAKAHAMA, Japan - The vessel Pacific Heron purportedly carrying plutonium-uranium mixed oxide fuel docks at the Takahama nuclear plant of Kansai Electric Power Co. in Fukui Prefecture on the Sea of Japan, on June 30, 2010. It was the first delivery of MOX fuel to the plant since 1999.

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