(4)Loading begins of MOX fuel returning to Britain

(4)Loading begins of MOX fuel returning to Britain

TAKAHAMA, Japan - Members of environment groups protest the shipment to Britain of plutonium-uranium mixed oxide (MOX) fuel from Kansai Electric Power Co.'s nuclear power plant at Takahama, Fukui Prefecture, on July 4. The banner reads: ''No more BNFL,'' a reference to British Nuclear Fuels PLC, the manufacturer of the fuel.

Loading of MOX fuel onto ships starts at Fukui nuclear plant

Loading of MOX fuel onto ships starts at Fukui nuclear plant

TAKAHAMA, Japan - Workers load plutonium-uranium mixed oxide (MOX) into a container at Kansai Electric Power Co.'s nuclear plant in Takahama, Fukui Prefecture, on June 21. The fuel is being sent back to Britain unused after it was revealed that British Nuclear Fuels PLC (BNFL) falsified manufacturing data for MOX fuel shipped to Kansai Electric Power in 1999.

Tokyo, London agree on return of MOX fuel

Tokyo, London agree on return of MOX fuel

TOKYO, Japan - Natural Resources and Energy Agency chief Hirobumi Kawano (L) and Anna Walker, the Energy Bureau chief of Britain's Department of Trade and Industry, shake hands July 11 in Tokyo shortly before reaching an agreement whereby tainted mixed uranium-plutonium oxide (MOX) fuel manufactured by British Nuclear Fuels PLC (BNFL) is to be returned to Britain from Japan. It came to light last year that quality-assurance data on MOX fuel shipments intended for use at two reactors in Japan had been falsified by BNFL workers.

(4)Loading begins of MOX fuel returning to Britain

(4)Loading begins of MOX fuel returning to Britain

TAKAHAMA, Japan - Members of environment groups protest the shipment to Britain of plutonium-uranium mixed oxide (MOX) fuel from Kansai Electric Power Co.'s nuclear power plant at Takahama, Fukui Prefecture, on July 4. The banner reads: ''No more BNFL,'' a reference to British Nuclear Fuels PLC, the manufacturer of the fuel.

Loading of MOX fuel onto ships starts at Fukui nuclear plant

Loading of MOX fuel onto ships starts at Fukui nuclear plant

TAKAHAMA, Japan - Workers load plutonium-uranium mixed oxide (MOX) into a container at Kansai Electric Power Co.'s nuclear plant in Takahama, Fukui Prefecture, on June 21. The fuel is being sent back to Britain unused after it was revealed that British Nuclear Fuels PLC (BNFL) falsified manufacturing data for MOX fuel shipped to Kansai Electric Power in 1999.

Tokyo, London agree on return of MOX fuel

Tokyo, London agree on return of MOX fuel

TOKYO, Japan - Natural Resources and Energy Agency chief Hirobumi Kawano (L) and Anna Walker, the Energy Bureau chief of Britain's Department of Trade and Industry, shake hands July 11 in Tokyo shortly before reaching an agreement whereby tainted mixed uranium-plutonium oxide (MOX) fuel manufactured by British Nuclear Fuels PLC (BNFL) is to be returned to Britain from Japan. It came to light last year that quality-assurance data on MOX fuel shipments intended for use at two reactors in Japan had been falsified by BNFL workers.