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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...
Japan Nuclear Fuel Ltd. (JNFL) is supposed to be conducting active tests at the Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant, but in reality the plant has been effectively out of action for around nine months since the...
No indication when active tests will be completed Problems continue to plague the high active radioactive waste vitrification facility at Japan Nuclear Fuel Ltd’s (JNFL) Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant. Sixty glass canisters were produced in...
No chance of completing the plant in May as planned The final stage of the active tests of the Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant began in February this year, but the high-level liquid waste vitrification facility...
Full operation won’t begin as scheduled in February 2008 Tests of the Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant using spent nuclear fuel (active tests) commenced in March 2006. Production of plutonium began in November of the same...