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Nuclear Accident Plant has License WithdrawnDate Posted: 2000-04-01 It is the first time a firm has had its license taken away under Japan’s nuclear regulatory laws. The accident was triggered when JCO workers put nearly eight times the proper amount of condensed uranium into a mixing tank at a processing plant in Tokaimura, about 140 km (90 miles) northeast of Tokyo. JCO officials have said the company illegally revised a government-approved manual to allow its workers to use buckets instead of a pump to transfer the uranium solution into the mixing tank. The Science and Technology agency official said the agency’s decision was based on JCO’s long-term use of unauthorized methods in processing nuclear fuel, such as the use of buckets, which violated specific provisions of the nuclear regulatory law. |
   
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