June 9 1998

Japan Nuclear Fuel Limited

JNFL announced that in response to its application dated September 22 1997, it today received the fifth authorization for reprocessing facility design and construction from the director of the Science and Technology Agency.

Following are the main items of equipment in the Separation Building and Purification Building for which the design and construction were approved today.

• Separation facilities which separate materials received from the dissolution process into (1) uranium and plutonium and (2) fission products, using organic solvents, and then subsequently separate solution (1) into uranium and plutonium.
• Purification facilities which remove fission products from the uranyl nitrate solution and the plutonium nitrate solution received from the separation process.
• HALW Concentration Sub-Facility and HALW Storage Sub-Facility Reservoirs

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