A plutonium fuel shipment from France to Japan is scheduled to depart early April 2013. If it takes place, it would be the first plutonium shipment from Europe to Japan since the March 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident. Many nations’ coastal waters could be on the route of the shipment. The route remains secret. Only two reactors are operating in Japan. None of the potential reactors the fuel is destined for have been granted permission to restart operations.
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Letters sent to countries potentially on the route of the MOX fuel shipment (PDF)
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MOX Fuel Shipment 2009: Issues and Controversies–Presented to the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan
by Aileen Mioko Smith (Executive Director of Green Action), 15 May 2009, page 8, “Japan Ignores International Calls for Shipment Safety”
http://www.greenaction-japan.org/modules/wordpress0/index.php?p=68
“Areva plans 1st nuclear fuel shipment to Japan since Fukushima”, Reuters, 4 March 2013
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/03/04/japan-nuclear-mox-idUSL4N0BW3TV20130304