A ship loaded with MOX fuel manufactured in France departed from a port in northwestern France to Japan on the 8th for use in the "pull thermal power generation" at the Takahama Nuclear Power Station of Kansai Electric Power Co., Inc.
What is transported to Japan is "MOX fuel," which is obtained by extracting plutonium from the spent nuclear fuel of the nuclear power plant and mixing it with uranium.
Kansai Electric Power Co., Inc. outsourced production to the French nuclear power company Areva for use in the "pull thermal power generation" being carried out at Takahama Nuclear Power Plant Units 3 and 4.
At the port of Cherbourg in northwestern France, two cylindrical containers with a length of about 6 meters containing MOX fuel were loaded onto a dedicated transport ship by a large crane before dawn on the 8th, and went to Japan on the night of the 8th of Japan time. I left for.
According to Areva, transportation is expected to take two to three months, and for safety reasons the route has not been announced.
This is the seventh MOX fuel transport from France to Japan, and the third after the accident at TEPCO's Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station.