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The centrifuges at Japan Nuclear Fuel Ltd’s (JNFL) Rokkasho Uranium Enrichment Plant, located four kilometers to the northeast of the Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant, have fallen silent. The last line was shut down on December...
On September 10 Japan Nuclear Fuel Ltd (JNFL) announced that the commencement of commercial operations of its Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant would be delayed by two years from October this year to October 2012. This...
October date for full operations definitely won’t be met The vitrification furnace at Japan Nuclear Fuel Ltd’s (JNFL) Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant is being restored. However, this only means that the prospects of resuming active...
Another HLW Leak Japan Nuclear Fuel Ltd. (JNFL) is currently trying to restore the Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant after a leak of about 150 liters of high-level radioactive liquid waste (HLW) in the vitrification facility...
On August 31 Japan Nuclear Fuel Ltd. (JNFL) announced that it had extended the estimated date of completion of construction and testing of its Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant by fourteen months to October 2010. It...
Active testing of the Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant is on hold due to repeated problems with the vitrification facility. Completion of the tests was rescheduled for August this year, but that target is clearly unachievable....
This article provides an update on a report in Nuke Info Tokyo No.129 about a leak of high-level liquid waste (HLW) at the Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant. The leak occurred in the HLW Vitrification Facility....
Active testing of the Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant continues to be plagued by problems and accidents. Since the beginning of 2008, Japan Nuclear Fuel Ltd. (JNFL) has successively extended the schedule for commencing commercial operations...
The Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant, owned and operated by Japan Nuclear Fuel Ltd. (JNFL), is in the final stage of active testing, but problems with vitrification of high-level radioactive waste to form glass canisters have...
Never Ending Vitrification Problems The last stage of active testing of the Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant has been plagued by technical problems. The operator, Japan Nuclear Fuel Ltd. (JNFL), has been unable to produce glass...
