Prompted by the high cost of complying with new post-Fukushima Dai-ichi accident safety measures, the Japan Nuclear Regulation Authority on June 13 said it had approved of a decommissioning plan for the Tokai reprocessing plant in Ibaraki Prefecture. The Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA) would have borne the cost of the safety upgrades, submitted plans for decommissioning in June 2017 after declaring the costs prohibitive in September 2014 after the new regulations went into effect in 2013.
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