Vessel carrying MOX fuel reaches Takahama nuclear plant

Vessel carrying MOX fuel reaches Takahama nuclear plant

TAKAHAMA, Japan - A crane lifts a container of plutonium-uranium mixed oxide, or MOX, fuel from a vessel near Kansai Electric Power Co.'s Takahama nuclear power station in Fukui Prefecture on June 30, 2010. It was the first delivery since 1999 of the fuel, used in ''pluthermal'' power generation.

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