A pox on MOX
Kariwa’s voters rebel against a new fuel
THE Japanese never used to be this awkward. On May 27th the residents of the village of Kariwa on the Japan Sea coast voted in a referendum against the use of MOX, a new type of fuel, in the local nuclear power plant, the world's largest. The village's mayor put the project on hold, at a stroke imperilling Japan's multi-billion dollar plans to use plutonium in as many as 18 of the country's 51 nuclear reactors.
This article appeared in the Asia section of the print edition under the headline “A pox on MOX”
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