中間貯蔵施設が操業開始　全国初、規制委「検査適切」―青森・むつ市

　東京電力と日本原子力発電が出資するリサイクル燃料貯蔵（ＲＦＳ）は６日、原発の使用済み核燃料を敷地外で一時保管する中間貯蔵施設（青森県むつ市）の操業を始めたと発表した。原子力規制委員会が同日、同社が操業前の検査を適切に実施したことを示す「使用前確認証」を交付した。中間貯蔵施設の事業開始は国内で初めて。
　施設には、９月に東電柏崎刈羽原発４号機（新潟県）の使用済み燃料６９体（ウラン量１２トン）が搬入されている。２０２６年度までにウラン量９６トン分の使用済み燃料を受け入れる計画という。（2024/11/06-18:41）

Operations of Japan's first interim spent nuclear fuel storage facility in Aomori Prefecture started Wednesday as the Nuclear Regulation Authority certified the facility's safety.
   The NRA issued the certificate after confirming that the operator, Recyclable-Fuel Storage Co., had undertaken proper safety management at the storage facility in the Aomori city of Mutsu since the first cask containing 69 assemblies of spent fuel with 12 tons of uranium arrived from the No. 4 reactor of Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc.'s Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant in Niigata Prefecture in September.
   The facility is slated to accept spent fuel from TEPCO and Japan Atomic Power Co., both investors in RFS, for up to 50 years. By March 2027, it is scheduled to take in a total of eight casks.
   After the interim storage, the spent fuel is set to be transported to a reprocessing plant under construction in the Aomori village of Rokkasho.
   However, it had yet to become certain when the plant's construction is completed given the fact that Japan Nuclear Fuel Ltd. has repeatedly extended the construction period. It is now aiming to finish the work by March 2027.