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Hakodate city suit over MOX reactor

TOKYO, Japan - Toshiki Kudo (front), mayor of the city of Hakodate in Hokkaido, heads to the Tokyo District Court on April 3, 2014. The city filed a lawsuit against the Japanese state government and Electric Power Development Co. seeking suspension of construction of a plutonium-uranium mixed oxide fuel reactor at the Oma nuclear power plant in Aomori Prefecture due to safety concerns.

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Hakodate city suit over MOX reactor

TOKYO, Japan - A June 2013 photo taken from a Kyodo News airplane shows the Oma nuclear power plant (bottom) under construction in Aomori Prefecture. At top is the city of Hakodate, Hokkaido, across the Tsugaru Strait. The city of Hakodate filed a lawsuit on April 3, 2014, against the Japanese state government and Electric Power Development Co. seeking suspension of the construction of a plutonium-uranium mixed oxide fuel reactor at the Oma plant due to safety concerns.

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British MOX plant to be closed

LONDON, Britain - File photo taken in March 2011 shows facilities related to nuclear power in Sellafield, Britain. Ten Japanese electric power companies that operate nuclear power plants jointly covered the cost of renovating a Sellafield-based plant to produce plutonium-uranium mixed oxide, or MOX, fuel. Now the British government-affiliated Nuclear Decommissioning Authority, which runs the facility, has determined Japan will no longer need MOX fuel in the wake of the nuclear accident at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant, and has decided to close the reprocessing plant, industry sources said Oct. 18, 2011.

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Nuclear fuel unloaded in Fukui Pref.

TOKYO, Japan - Plutonium-uranium mixed oxide, or MOX, fuel is unloaded from a ship in the town of Takahama, Fukui Prefecture, in June 2010, to be transported to the Takahama nuclear power plant operated by Kansai Electric Power Co. Japan held 30.1 tons of fissile plutonium at home and abroad as of the end of 2010, down 0.9 ton from a year earlier for the second consecutive yearly decline, the government said Sept. 20, 2011.

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Japan's 1st MOX plant

AOMORI, Japan - Japan Nuclear Fuel Ltd. Executive Vice President Koichi Ikeda (R) orders a loading shovel to start operations during a groundbreaking ceremony for Japan's first commercial plant to produce plutonium-uranium mixed oxide, or MOX, fuel, an integral part of the nation's nuclear fuel cycle policy, in the village of Rokkasho, Aomori Prefecture, on Oct. 28, 2010.

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MOX fuel power generation starts in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - This October 2008 file photo shows the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant of Tokyo Electric Power Co. in Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture. Power generation using plutonium-uranium mixed oxide fuel started at the plant's No. 3 reactor (2nd from L) on Sept. 23, 2010.

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MOX fuel rods placed in storage pool

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Plutonium-uranium mixed oxide (MOX) fuel rods are placed in a storage pool at the No. 3 reactor of the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant in Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture. The photo was taken on Aug. 21, 2010.

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MOX fuel placed in storage pool

TSURUGA, Japan - Plutonium-uranium mixed oxide fuel processed in France for ''pluthermal'' power generation is placed in a storage pool filled with boric acid solution at Takahama nuclear power plant in Takahama, Fukui Prefecture, on July 6, 2010. Kansai Electric Power Co. gave the media access to observe the process.

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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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MOX fuel reaches Japan nuclear plant

TAKAHAMA, Japan - Protesters mount a rally in the town of Takahama, Fukui Prefecture, on June 30, 2010, after the vessel Pacific Heron, which is believed to be carrying plutonium-uranium mixed oxide fuel, docks at a Kansai Electric Power Co. plant. The banner reads, ''Stop pluthermal.''

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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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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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'Pluthermal' power generation begins at Japan plant

MATSUYAMA, Japan - Seen here is the No. 3 reactor at the Ikata nuclear power plant in Ehime Prefecture in western Japan on March 4, 2010. The nuclear plant became Japan's second ''pluthermal'' power-generating facility, using plutonium-uranium mixed oxide fuel.

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Japan's 1st 'pluthermal' power generation begins

FUKUOKA, Japan - File photo taken in May 2009 shows the Kyushu Electric Power Co.'s Genkai nuclear power plant in Saga Prefecture, southwestern Japan. The electric power company began operating the No. 3 reactor using plutonium-uranium mixed oxide (MOX) as fuel for the first time in Japan on Nov. 5, 2009.

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Recycled nuclear fuel arrives at Ikata power plant in Shikoku

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Recycled nuclear fuel carried from France is unloaded from a cargo ship near Shikoku Electric Power Co.'s Ikata plant in Ehime Prefecture on May 27. Shikoku Electric plans to start using the plutonium-uranium mixed oxide, or MOX, fuel at the No. 3 reactor at the plant in January to launch so-called pluthermal, or plutonium-thermal, power generation in February.

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Fishermen rally against MOX fuel project at Genkai nuke plant

GENKAI, Japan - Some 170 fishing boats sail near Kyushu Electric Power Co.'s Gengaki nuclear power plant in Saga Prefecture on Sept. 15 to protest against the company's plan to use plutonium-uranium mixed oxide fuel in a reactor at the plant.

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Pacific Pintail with MOX fuel leaves for Britain

TAKAHAMA, Japan - The British nuclear-fuel transport ship Pacific Pintail leaves a nuclear plant of Kansai Electric Power Co. in Takahama, Fukui Prefecture, for Britain on July 4 with eight containers of plutonium-uranium mixed oxide (MOX) fuel. The MOX fuel has been stored at the plant since 1999 when documentation on the fuel was found to have been doctored.

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(2)Loading begins of MOX fuel returning to Britain

TAKAHAMA, Japan - One of eight cylinders containing plutonium-uranium mixed oxide (MOX) fuel is loaded aboard the British nuclear-fuel transport ship Pacific Pintail at Kansai Electric Power Co.'s Takahama nuclear plant in Fukui Prefecture on July 4.

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(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.

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(3)Loading begins of MOX fuel returning to Britain

TAKAHAMA, Japan - Two British policemen are on guard aboard the nuclear-fuel transport ship Pacific Pintail, which is due to leave for Britain on July 4 with a load of eight containers of plutonium-uranium mixed oxide (MOX) fuel from Kansai Electric Power Co. Citing security reasons, both Japanese authorities and Kansai Electric have declined to disclose the route the Pacific Pintail will take or when it will arrive in Britain.

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(1)Loading begins of MOX fuel returning to Britain

TAKAHAMA, Japan - Plutonium-uranium mixed oxide (MOX) fuel in containers to be returned to its manufacturers in Britain is ready for loading aboard the British nuclear-fuel transport ship Pacific Pintail at Kansai Electric Power Co.'s Takahama nuclear plant in Fukui Prefecture on July 4. The MOX fuel has been stored at the plant since 1999 when documentation on the fuel was found to have been doctored.

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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.

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MOX transportation ship bound for Britain arrives in Takahama

TAKAHAMA, Japan - The Pacific Pintail, one of two ships that will transport plutonium-uranium mixed oxide (MOX) fuel to Britain, arrives June 14 at the port of Kansai Electric Power Co.'s nuclear power plant in Takahama, Fukui Prefecture. The ship will transport the MOX fuel, currently stored at the plant, to British Nuclear Fuels PLC, the British manufacturer of the fuel, in early July, sources familiar with the shipping plan said.

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Hiranuma meets Kariwa Mayor Shinada on MOX fuel

TOKYO, Japan - Economy, Trade and Industry Minister Takeo Hiranuma (L) meets Hiroo Shinada, the mayor of Kariwa village in Niigata Prefecture, at the Diet building on May 29. The meeting was held after a majority of Kariwa residents rejected in a May 27 plebiscite a Tokyo Electric Power Co. plan to use plutonium-uranium mixed oxide (MOX) fuel at its nuclear power plant in the prefecture.

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Kariwa village to postpone MOX fuel use at local plant

KARIWA, Japan - Hiroo Shinada, mayor of Kariwa village in Niigata Prefecture, speaks at a press conference in the village on May 28 about his decision not to approve the use of plutonium-uranium mixed oxide (MOX) at a local nuclear plant. In the previous day's plebiscite, local people rejected the plan to use the fuel. Shinada said the village will set up a consultation body to further discuss nuclear issues, but avoided reference to the possibility of the village renouncing introduction of the fuel.

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State to seek public support for MOX use, Koizumi says

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi responds to questions May 28 during a House of Representatives Budget Committee session. He stressed the need for the state to get the public to support nuclear energy following the rejection of a Tokyo Electric Power Co. plan to use plutonium-uranium mixed oxide (MOX) fuel at its nuclear power plant in Niigata Prefecture in a local plebiscite May 27.

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Niigata village says no to MOX fuel use at nuke plant

KARIWA, Japan - Opponents of a Tokyo Electric Power Co. plan to use plutonium-uranium mixed oxide (MOX) fuel at a nuclear power plant in Kariwa, Niigata Prefecture, rejoice May 27 after a majority of village residents rejected the plan in Japan's first plebiscite on the issue the same day.

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Niigata villagers go to polls over nuclear fuel plan

KARIWA, Japan - A resident of the village of Kariwa in Niigata Prefecture casts his ballot in a voting May 27 on a plan to use plutonium-uranium mixed oxide (MOX) fuel at a local nuclear power plant of Tokyo Electric Power Co.

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Town to hold plebiscite over plant's MOX fuel use

KARIWA, Japan - Municipal workers in Kariwa, Niigata Prefecture, post notices explaining a plebiscite over a plan to use plutonium-uranium mixed oxide (MOX) fuel at a local nuclear power plant. The result of the May 27 vote, in which residents will be asked whether they approve of the plan, may significantly affect power companies and the central government's nuclear power policy.

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Plebiscite on MOX fuel use at Niigata plant planned in May

NIIGATA, Japan - Hiroo Shinada, mayor of the village of Kariwa in Niigata Prefecture on the Sea of Japan coast, announced April 24 his village will hold a plebiscite May 27 on a plan to use plutonium-uranium mixed oxide (MOX) fuel at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant of Tokyo Electric Power Co. The announcement followed the Kariwa village assembly's passage of an ordinance to hold such a plebiscite.

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Fuel arrives at storage site in Niigata nuclear plant

KASHIWAZAKI, Japan - Workers complete the unloading of plutonium-uranium mixed oxide (MOX) fuel from a British cargo ship that arrived in a special port in Kashiwazaki, Niigata Prefecture, on March 24. The fuel was unloaded from the 5,271-ton Pacific Pintail freighter and delivered to a storage site inside Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power station compound.

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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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Russia ready to export nuclear fuel to Japan: Russian minister

MOSCOW, Russia - Russian Minister of Nuclear Energy Yevgeny Adamov said Russia is ready to export to Japan plutonium-uranium mixed oxide (MOX) fuel made using plutonium from scrapped nuclear arms, and also to take the spent fuel back to Russia. Adamov was speaking in an interview with Kyodo News in Moscow on June 2.

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Demonstrators oppose introduction of MOX fuel

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Demonstrators march Sept. 19 in Fukushima, northeastern Japan, protesting against the upcoming arrival of two cargo ships carrying mixed plutonium-uranium oxide (MOX) fuel. Under the ''pluthermal'' plan, pellets of MOX fuel will be burned inside light-water reactors to generate heat for producing electricity. The two ships will make their first of two stops in Japan on Wednesday at the pier of the No. 1 Fukushima nuclear power plant operated by Tokyo Electric Power Co.

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Greenpeace protests nuclear fuel shipments

TSURUGA, Japan - Shaun Burnie (2nd from L), head of Greenpeace's plutonium campaign, and other members of the group speak at a news conference aboard their ship docked at Tsuruga port in Fukui Prefecture on Sept. 10. Burnie lamented the lack of public debate on the risks of using mixed plutonium-uranium oxide (MOX) fuel. Two armed cargo ships carrying MOX fuel produced in Britain and France are due to arrive in Japan on Sept. 22.

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Greenpeace delays departure of MOX ship to Japan

BARROW-IN-FURNESS, England - The Pacific Teal, which is to stop in northern France to pick up a cargo of mixed plutonium-uranium oxide (MOX) fuel to transport to Japan, is forced to stay at Barrrow-in-Furness harbor July 19 due to a blockade by Greenpeace protesting against the shipment.

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S. Korean group protests against Japan's MOX shipment

SEOUL, S. Korea - About 30 members of the Korean Federation of Environmental Movements hold a rally in front of the Japanese Embassy in Seoul on July 19 in protest against Japan's plan to ship mixed-plutonium-uranium oxide (MOX) fuel through the Korea Strait. Two ships are now at Barrow-in-Furness in northern England preparing to transport the fuel.

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Trucks carry MOX to French port for shipment to Japan

CHERBOURG, France - Photo shows a trailer truck carrying mixed plutonium-uranium oxide (MOX) fuel July 18 with a police escort to the French port of Cherbourg, where the cargo will be shipped to Japan. Two other trailer trucks also transported MOX to the port, where the substance will be loaded on two British cargo ships to soon arrive from Barrow in northern England.

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MOX fuel arrives at nuclear power plant in Japan

A freighter carrying plutonium-uranium mixed oxide fuel, known as MOX fuel, arrives at Kansai Electric Power Co.'s Takahama nuclear power plant in the Fukui Prefecture town of Takahama, central Japan, on Nov. 17, 2021. (Pool photo)

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Recycled nuclear fuel arrives at Ikata power plant in Shikoku

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Recycled nuclear fuel carried from France is unloaded from a cargo ship near Shikoku Electric Power Co.'s Ikata plant in Ehime Prefecture on May 27. Shikoku Electric plans to start using the plutonium-uranium mixed oxide, or MOX, fuel at the No. 3 reactor at the plant in January to launch so-called pluthermal, or plutonium-thermal, power generation in February. (Kyodo)

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Ex-Prime Ministers Koizumi, Hosokawa visit Hakodate

Former Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi (2nd from R) checks the location of the planned Oma nuclear plant located in Aomori Prefecture across the Tsugaru Strait, from the Hakodate municipal office in Hokkaido on Oct. 29, 2015. Earlier, Koizumi and former Prime Minister Morihiro Hosokawa met with Hakodate Mayor Toshiki Kudo. The two former prime ministers are jointly working to eliminate nuclear power generation while Hakodate city filed a lawsuit in April 2014 seeking the suspension of a plan to build the Oma plant, the world's first plutonium-uranium mixed oxide fuel reactor. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Ex-Prime Ministers Koizumi, Hosokawa visit Hakodate

(From L) Former Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, Hakodate Mayor Toshiki Kudo and former Prime Minister Morihiro Hosokawa speak to reporters at the municipal office in Hakodate, Hokkaido, on Oct. 29, 2015, after their talks. The two former prime ministers are jointly working to eliminate nuclear power generation while Hakodate city filed a lawsuit in April 2014 seeking the suspension of a plan to build the Oma nuclear plant, the world's first plutonium-uranium mixed oxide fuel reactor located in Aomori Prefecture across the Tsugaru Strait. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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2 ex-PMs visit Hakodate

Former Japanese prime ministers Morihiro Hosokawa (far R) and Junichiro Koizumi (2nd from R) visit the Hakodate municipal office in Hokkaido on Oct. 29, 2015, to meet with Mayor Toshiki Kudo (front row). Hosokawa and Koizumi are working jointly to eliminate nuclear power generation and the city of Hakodate filed a lawsuit in April 2014 seeking the suspension of a plan to build the world's first plutonium-uranium mixed oxide fuel reactor. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Court rejects suit seeking halt to MOX use at Genkai nuclear plant

File photo taken in June 2013 shows the No. 3 reactor (R) at Kyushu Electric Power Co.'s Genkai nuclear plant in the town of Genkai, southwestern Japan. The Saga District Court decided March 20, 2015, to reject a suit seeking a halt to the planned use by the utility of plutonium-uranium mixed oxide, or MOX, fuel at the plant. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Court rejects suit seeking halt to MOX use at Genkai nuclear plant

People hold banners in front of the Saga District Court in the city of Saga, southwestern Japan, on March 20, 2015, to protest against the court's decision to reject a suit seeking a halt to the planned use by Kyushu Electric Power Co. of plutonium-uranium mixed oxide, or MOX, fuel at its Genkai nuclear power plant in the prefecture. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Fishermen rally against MOX fuel project at Genkai nuke plant

GENKAI, Japan - Some 170 fishing boats sail near Kyushu Electric Power Co.'s Gengaki nuclear power plant in Saga Prefecture on Sept. 15 to protest against the company's plan to use plutonium-uranium mixed oxide fuel in a reactor at the plant. (Kyodo)

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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. (Kyodo)

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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. (Kyodo)

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MOX fuel reaches Japan nuclear plant

TAKAHAMA, Japan - Protesters mount a rally in the town of Takahama, Fukui Prefecture, on June 30, 2010, after the vessel Pacific Heron, which is believed to be carrying plutonium-uranium mixed oxide fuel, docks at a Kansai Electric Power Co. plant. The banner reads, ''Stop pluthermal.'' (Kyodo)

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British MOX plant to be closed

LONDON, Britain - File photo taken in March 2011 shows facilities related to nuclear power in Sellafield, Britain. Ten Japanese electric power companies that operate nuclear power plants jointly covered the cost of renovating a Sellafield-based plant to produce plutonium-uranium mixed oxide, or MOX, fuel. Now the British government-affiliated Nuclear Decommissioning Authority, which runs the facility, has determined Japan will no longer need MOX fuel in the wake of the nuclear accident at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant, and has decided to close the reprocessing plant, industry sources said Oct. 18, 2011. (Kyodo)