Japan moves step closer to scrapping trouble-prone Monju reactor

Japan moves step closer to scrapping trouble-prone Monju reactor

NAGOYA, Japan, Sept. 21 Kyodo - Photo taken Sept. 21, 2016, from a Kyodo News helicopter shows the reactor building of the Monju fast-breeder unit in the Sea of Japan coastal city of Tsuruga. The government decided that day to rethink its policy on the plutonium-burning reactor that has hardly operated over the past 20 years despite its intended key role in Japan's nuclear fuel recycling policy.

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