Overview
- Economy and trade minister Yasuji Muto inspected Japan Nuclear Fuel Ltd.’s spent-fuel reprocessing site in Rokkasho, Aomori, on October 2.
- Muto called the fiscal 2026 completion target a very important task and pledged that the government would mobilize with industry to meet it.
- He voiced confidence in construction progress, saying the work had advanced and that he believed it would be fine.
- The plant is designed to recover reusable uranium and plutonium from spent nuclear fuel as part of Japan’s fuel-cycle policy.
- Completion is nearly three decades behind the original schedule, leaving reactor pool storage capacity tight nationwide.