JAPAN NUCLEAR FUEL LIMITED

June 13 1997
Press Release Concerning the First 1997 Shipment and Intake of Natural Uranium to the Rokkasho Uranium Enrichment Plant in Rokkasho-Mura

Hokuriku Electric Company
Kyushu Electric Company
Japan Nuclear Fuel Limited


The first 1997 shipment and intake of natural uranium to the Rokkasho Uranium Enrichment Plant is scheduled to take place on 17 June 1997.
Natural uranium imported from abroad and owned by Hokuriku Electric Company and Kyushu Electric Company will be unloaded from a container ship and transshipped to overland vehicles (15 trailers) at Tokyo's Ohi wharf. The vehicles will leave Ohi wharf on the morning of June 17, and after traveling by way of the Tohoku Expresseway and Hachinohe Turnpike will arrive at the Rokkasho Uranium Enrichment Plant in the afternoon of the same day. A total of 187 tons of UF6 stored in 48 Y-type cylinders will be transported.



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