OSAKA -- Fearful that history will repeat itself, antinuclear groups are calling on Kansai Electric Power Co. to provide data on a batch of mixed uranium and plutonium oxide (MOX) fuel now being processed in France.
But the utility, which is still reeling from disclosures last year that data related to a shipment of MOX fuel from Britain was falsified, is so far refusing to answer questions about the French fuel, which activists in Japan and France say could be shipped to Japan within the next few years.
Nearly eight months after British Nuclear Fuels Ltd. admitted that data for a shipment of MOX that arrived for Kepco's Takahama nuclear plant in Fukui Prefecture had been falsified, Kepco officials held a public symposium to explain what happened.