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Oma MOX plant gets nod from ministry

04/24/2008
THE ASAHI SHIMBUN

The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry gave the go-ahead Wednesday to construct the world's first MOX-only nuclear power plant, in Oma, Aomori Prefecture.

The new plant could play a key role in Japan's nuclear fuel recycling policy.

Plans call for the plant eventually to use only mixed-oxide (MOX) fuel, a blend of reprocessed plutonium and uranium. That objective is important because the plant would consume fuel from Japan's growing stockpile of plutonium.

Because plutonium can be converted for use in nuclear weapons, Japan has consistently stated in the past that its plutonium stockpile would only be used to generate electricity. The stockpile reached about 30 tons at the end of 2006.

Electric Power Development Co. (J-Power) will operate the Oma plant.

Construction of the advanced boiling-water reactor (ABWR), capable of generating 1.38 million kilowatts of electricity, will begin in May. The Oma plant will be the first constructed under new quake resistance guidelines revised in 2006.

J-Power hopes to begin operations at the plant in March 2012. Total construction costs are expected to reach 469 billion yen.

An application for construction of the plant was submitted in 1999, but the company had trouble convincing local landowners to sell property for the plant site.

In 2004, J-Power submitted a new plan that moved the reactor core about 200 meters from the first site that was proposed.

Japan's stockpile of plutonium comes from fissile plutonium extracted from spent fuel at commercial nuclear power plants.

Under the nation's pluthermal program, that plutonium will be mixed with uranium and used in nuclear power plants.

Initial plans called for between 16 to 18 pluthermal plants to be in operation by fiscal 2010.

However, at those plants the ratio of MOX fuel to be used will be about one-fourth to one-third of the total, with the rest of the fuel being uranium.

In contrast, the Oma plant should eventually use about three times as much plutonium as would be consumed at other pluthermal plants.

While the Oma plant is to begin operating with less than one-third of its total fuel consumption from MOX fuel, plans call for a shift to complete MOX fuel within five to 10 years.(IHT/Asahi: April 24,2008)

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