Chubu Electric Power Co. said Friday it was asked by the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency to set up supportive or neutral questions from the audience at a 2007 symposium about a plan to use a controversial fuel mix at the Hamaoka nuclear plant.
According to Chubu Electric, NISA orally requested that it draft such questions and give them to people who would attend the symposium to make sure not all the questions would be against the use of plutonium-uranium mixed oxide (MOX) fuel.
MOX fuel, used in "pluthermal" power generation, is created from spent nuclear fuel and uranium. In 2005, Chubu Electric had announced plans to introduce the pluthermal system in reactor 4 at the Hamaoka plant in Shizuoka Prefecture.