Spent nuclear fuel shipped to Japan's 1st interim storage facility

The operator of a nuclear power plant in central Japan on Tuesday shipped spent fuel to the country's first interim storage facility.Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. sent 69 spent fuel assemblies from the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant in Niigata Prefecture by ship. The fuel will be delivered to the interim storage facility in Mutsu, Aomori Prefecture, on Thursday at the earliest.With capacity at spent fuel pools at the plant's No. 6 and No. 7 reactors approaching the limit, TEPCO plans to transfer two containers that can hold 138 fuel assemblies and five containers with 345 assemblies …READ FULL ARTICLE