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Plutonium used for MOX fuel at Fugen was imported from overseas until September 1981, when Fugen started utilizing the plutonium recovered in Tokai reprocessing plant using spent fuels of domestic LWRs. As for the uranium fuels loaded after December 1982, enriched uranium processed at Ningyo-Toge works has been used. Additionally, in May 1984, four MOX fuels were loaded at Fugen of which base material was made from uranium recovered from spent fuels of domestic LWRs at Tokai works. Since then, recovered uranium has also been used for MOX fuel fabrication. In May 1988, spent MOX fuels of Fugen were reprocessed at Tokai works and the recovered plutonium from those fuels was re-fabricated into four MOX fuels, which were newly loaded at Fugen. In this way, the nuclear fuel cycle has completed. This means Fugen proceeded to establish and demonstrate the nuclear fuel cycle in an actual-reactor scale. |
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