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France to send latest nuclear shipment to Japan

Workers prepare a container of radioactive mixed oxide (Mox) fuel before loading it onto the ship at the harbour of Cherbourg-Octeville, north-western France on 7 September, 2022. AFP - JEAN-FRANCOIS MONIER

A shipment of reprocessed nuclear fuel arrived in the early hours of Wednesday at the French port city of Cherbourg, according to an AFP photographer, bound for Japan to be used in a power plant.

Japan lacks facilities to process waste from its own nuclear reactors and sends most of it overseas, particularly to France.

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