ＭＯＸ燃料、高浜原発に到着　１年ぶり、３号機で使用―関電

　フランスで製造されたウラン・プルトニウム混合酸化物（ＭＯＸ）燃料を積んだ輸送船が２２日、関西電力高浜原発（福井県高浜町）内の港に到着した。海外から同原発への輸送は約１年ぶりで、運ばれたＭＯＸ燃料１６体は高浜３号機でプルサーマル発電に使用する予定。
　関電社員ら約１３０人が搬入作業に当たり、燃料が入った輸送容器をクレーンでトレーラーに降ろした後、容器の放射線量を測定した。ＭＯＸ燃料は、使用済み核燃料から取り出したプルトニウムにウランを混ぜたもので、仏原子力大手オラノ社が製造した。輸送船は９月１７日、仏シェルブール港を出発していた。（2022/11/22-18:32）

A ship carrying plutonium-uranium mixed oxide, or MOX, fuel made in France arrived at the port of Kansai Electric Power Co.'s Takahama nuclear power station in Fukui Prefecture, central Japan, Tuesday morning.
   It was the first shipment of MOX fuel to the nuclear plant from overseas in roughly one year. The fuel will be used at the plant's No. 3 reactor.
   Kansai Electric, which serves the Kansai western Japan region, conducts so-called pluthermal power generation at the Takahama plant's No. 3 and No. 4 reactors. Pluthermal power generation, which uses MOX fuel, is a key part of the Japanese government's nuclear fuel cycle policy.
   The MOX fuel, a mixture of plutonium extracted from spent nuclear fuel and uranium, was produced by French nuclear company Orano. The ship carrying the fuel left the French port of Cherbourg on Sept. 17.
   Kansai Electric held about 12.6 tons of plutonium in Japan and overseas combined at the end of 2021, enough to make some 290 MOX fuel assemblies.