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JAPAN
NUCLEAR FUEL
LIMITED
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April 22 1998 |
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Hokkaido Electric Company |
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The first 1998 shipment and intake of natural uranium to the Rokkasho Uranium Enrichment Plant is scheduled to take place on 25 April 1998. Natural uranium imported from abroad and owned by Hokkaido Electric Company, Tohoku Electric Company and Chugoku Electric Company will be unloaded from a container ship and transshipped to overland vehicles (15 trailers) at Tokyo's Ohi wharf. The vehicles will leave Ohi wharf in the morning of April 25, 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 188 tons of UF6 stored in 48 Y-type cylinders will be transported. |
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