MOX fuel loading begins at Genkai nuke reactor

Thursday 15th October, 09:01 AM JST

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Yelnats at 10:35 PM JST - 15th October

Excellent. The faster Japan builds more nuke plants the more innovative they will become with commercial products at reduced electrical costs. go for it.
stipend at 12:05 PM JST - 16th October

Kyodo serves the No-News so well.

MOX fuel has no history in Japan. It's less stable, untested. Japan's prototype "fast breeder" reactor Monju, got really messed up when sodium pipes burst in '95. Not good. And there was a cover up. More not good. A full on nuclear plant, experimental, open about half a year.. and mothballed. Still not reopened? It's a white elephant. That's ok, press ahead. Transport the most dangerous substance known to man around the Cape of Good Hope in a ship back to Japan after reprocessing in France!

http://cnic.jp/english/newsletter/nit130/nit130articles/mox.html

The populace has every reason to be critical of government and industry here.

The byproduct of burning MOX fuel btw is weapons grade plutonium. Is J going nuclear? Let's hope not. Its intended home was to be with the still messed up nuclear industry, at their still messed up prototype fast breeder reactor Monju where it itself was to be burned off as fuel! It's nuts. Can't be done.

Now with no place for this plutonium byproduct, where will it go? It is not the kind of stuff you leave laying around.

http://www.greenaction-japan.org/modules/english0/index.php?id=5