Supply of Mox Fuel to Hokkaido Electric

AREVA has signed today a contract* to supply MOX fuel assemblies for unit 3 of the Tomari nuclear power plant (Japan), owned and operated by Hokkaido Electric Power Company.
Under the terms of the contract, the fuel will be fabricated at AREVA’s MELOX plant in southern France, using plutonium recovered from the treatment operations performed at the group’s La Hague plant, thereby recycling it to be used in Japan as MOX fuel.
This first contract with fuel service supplier Mitsubishi Nuclear Fuel (MNF) is fully part of Japan's nuclear program to recycle used fuel, and follows other contracts signed by AREVA from 2006 to 2009 to supply MOX fuel for Japanese utilities CHUBU, KYUSHU, SHIKOKU, KANSAI, EPDC and CHUGOKU.