JAPAN NUCLEAR FUEL LIMITED

May 26 1998

Press Release Concerning the Second 1998 Shipment and Intake of Natural Uranium to the Rokkasho Uranium Enrichment Plant in Rokkasho-Mura

Tokyo Electric Power Company
Japan Nuclear Fuel Limited

The second 1998 shipment and intake of natural uranium to the Rokkasho Uranium Enrichment Plant is scheduled to take place on 29 May 1998.

Natural uranium imported from abroad and owned by Tokyo Electric Power 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 May 26, 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 48Y-type cylinders will be transported.


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