- ARAB NEWS
- 01 May 2025
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The Japan Atomic Energy Agency restarted work on Wednesday to remove fuel assemblies from its Monju prototype fast-breeder nuclear reactor in Tsuruga, Fukui Prefecture, central Japan.
The JAEA will relocate nuclear fuel assemblies from a storage tank outside Monju to a water pool as part of its efforts to decommission the trouble-prone reactor. The removal work, the first of its kind this year, began in 2018.
The agency plans to remove about two assemblies per day and relocate some 130 assemblies to the pool by June, it said.
Initially, the agency planned to take 100 assemblies to the pool in 2018. So far, however, due to equipment malfunctions, it has completed the transfers of only 86 assemblies.
