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The Japanese government has pushed for the reuse of mixed-oxide (MOX) fuel in the country’s nuclear reactors, but utilities that finance the reprocessing have not funded those operations since fiscal…
The second unit at Kyushu Electric Power Co.'s Sendai nuclear facility in Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan, has restarted, and three more of the country's 43 operable reactors may soon follow suit. …
Kyushu Electric Power Co.'s restart of Sendai 1—the first Japanese reactor to begin operation under new safety standards after the Fukushima disaster—hit a technical hiccup last week, prompting the company…