Rokkasho
- Country: Japan
- Role: Reprocessing
- Status: Under Construction
- Year: 1993
Overview
The huge plant in Aomori prefecture intended to reprocess Japanese fuel and close the nuclear cycle, under construction and commissioning since 1993 and decades late. It anchors a fuel cycle strategy that included the never completed fast reactor Monju.
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