Press Release Concerning the First 2000 Shipment of Natural Uranium to the Rokkasho Uranium Enrichment Plant in Rokkasho-Mura

April 18 2000 Tohoku Electric Power Company Chubu Electric Power Company Japan Nuclear Fuel Limited

The first 2000 shipment of natural uranium to the Rokkasho Uranium Enrichment Plant is scheduled to take place on 21 April 2000. Natural uranium imported from abroad and owned by Tohoku Electric Power Company and Chugoku Power Company will be unloaded from a container ship and transshipped to overland vehicles (4 trailers) at Tokyo's Ohi wharf. The vehicles will leave Ohi wharf on the morning of April 21, and after traveling by way of the Tohoku Expressway and Hachinohe Turnpike will arrive at the Rokkasho Uranium Enrichment Plant in the afternoon of the same day. A total of 50 tons of UF6 stored in 48Y-type cylinders will be transported.