Representatives from communities near the Ohma nuclear power station in Aomori Prefecture, northern Japan, have urged the government to support the resumption of the plant’s construction, the Tokyo-based Japan Atomic Industry Forum (Jaif) said.
The plant was to be the first commercial power reactor capable of operating solely on plutonium-uranium mixed oxide (MOX) fuel, which is made from reprocessed plutonium and uranium.
Jaif reported that Nozaki Naofumi, mayor of Ohma Town, said the region had been “impoverished” by the suspension of the plant’s construction in the wake of the 11 March 2011 earthquake and tsunami that destroyed the Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear power station.
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