Agreeing with Mr Sales, Mr Justice Collins ruled that the justification for Mox "was established".
It will take approximately 15 years for the MOX facility to process the 34 MT of plutonium.
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Energy Northwest spokesperson, Rochelle Olson, says that the company is far from making any decisions on using MOX fuel.
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British Nuclear Fuels says it has found that another batch of Mox (mixed oxide) fuel is of suspect quality.
The MOX plant is due to start producing reprocessed fuel for use in civilian reactors in 2017 or 2018.
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Mox offers a solution to the problem: by blending the plutonium into a new fuel, the stockpiles can be reduced.
In February, BNFL admitted that staff checking the size of reprocessed Mox fuel pellets destined for Japan had faked safety records.
The Mox plant, which processes a blend of plutonium and uranium, was given the go-ahead at the start of this month.
It also ups the ante for reactor accident danger, as in the case of Fukushima, because MOX fuel has plutonium in it.
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The Sellafield Mox plant was set up to meet what was expected to be a big international market for the recycled fuel.
Once the MOX fuel assemblies have been irradiated in commercial power reactors, the plutonium can no longer be readily used for nuclear weapons.
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The MOX facility will blend surplus weapon-grade plutonium with depleted uranium oxide to make mixed oxide fuel for use in existing nuclear power plants.
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He accused Tony Blair of timing the announcement that the Mox operation would open, to coincide with the aftermath of the US terror attacks.
No U.S. nuclear power plants use MOX, stemming from a 1977 ban by the Carter Administration on reprocessing uranium for domestic nuclear power.
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The row has delayed the government's plans to privatise BNFL and soured relations with Japan - which was due to be a big customer of Mox fuel.
They were working in Reactor No. 3 which is of particular concern because it is the only unit to use MOX fuel, which is reprocessed spent fuel mixed with plutonium.
The fuel, called MOX, takes uranium from spent fuel rods and mixes it with plutonium, creating a less stable fuel, one that is potentially far more dangerous in a meltdown.
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The nuclear industry believes recycling the used fuel and turning it into Mox can help reduce the world's growing stockpile of plutonium, one of the most toxic substances known to humankind.
Kansai's announcement is the latest stage in a problem for BNFL that began in September, when a British newspaper, the Independent, revealed that fuel quality control data for another batch of Mox pellets had been falsified.
The fuel in No. 3 is a blend of plutonium and reprocessed uranium, referred to as MOX (for mixed oxide) and manufactured by the French nuclear company AREVA. MOX fuel rods are also less stable than plutonium-free rods.
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No. 3 contains 32 MOX fuel rods, or about 5 percent of the total, according to Arjun Makhijani, president of the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research, an anti-nuclear power organization which is considered a credible source of information.
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