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Nuclear fuel from France to Japan to resume

Nuclear fuel is expected to be shipped soon from France to Japan for the first time since the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in March 2011.

The fuel was carried on a large trailer truck from a reprocessing facility to the port of Cherbourg in northwestern France 20 kilometers away before dawn on Wednesday under tight security.

The fuel was loaded by a crane onto a special ship. The ship is expected to leave the French port for Japan as early as Wednesday.

Japan's Kansai Electric Power Company had ordered the fuel, a type called MOX, from the French energy firm Areva. MOX fuel is a mixture of plutonium extracted from spent nuclear fuel and uranium.
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