Rokkasho Cask Maintenance Facility

In a nuclear fuel cycle, it is important for to transport spent fuel from a reactor site to a reprocessing plant safely. In Currently, a commercial reprocessing plant is being built at Rokkasho, in Aomori, and, at the same time, the Rokkasho Cask Maintenance Facility is under construction next to a storage pool for spent fuel in a reprocessing plant. The purpose of this facility is to maintain many casks for spent fuel systematically. This facility for cask maintenance is the only facility of its kind in Japan.