Further Delay Announced For Japan’s Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant

Completion had previously been scheduled for this month, although completion targets have been rescheduled on several occasions.

JAIF said that Japan Nuclear Fuel Ltd filed an application with Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry on 30 January 2009 to alter its works schedule at the plant.

Rokkasho, in the northern prefecture of Aomori, will have a reprocessing capacity of about 800 tonnes annually and was originally scheduled to start full commercial operation in mid-2007.

>>Related reports in the NucNet database (available to subscribers)

Further Delay Announced At Japan’s Rokkasho (News in Brief No. 86, 5 August 2008)

New Completion Schedule For Japan’s Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant (News in Brief No. 135, 3 December 2008)

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