Nuclear Plant Gives Up Effort to Regain License
The operator of a plant involved in Japan’s worst nuclear accident has abandoned efforts to restart its fuel-reprocessing business, ending a three-year bid to win back its license. Directors of JCO Co. approved the decision, and Sumitomo Metal Mining Co., which owns JCO, said it backed the move.
On Sept. 30, 1999, two workers at the plant in Tokai mixed uranium in buckets instead of mechanized tanks, setting off an uncontrolled nuclear reaction that exposed them to fatal doses of radiation. A total of 439 people received lesser doses.
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