N THE MORNING OF SEPTEMBER 30, three workers were nearly finished purifying the uranium oxide they were processing to make fuel rods for Japan's Joyo fast research reactor. Ordinarily, the JCO fuel production plant at Tokaimura processed uranium The trouble On October 4, 1999, four days after the nuclear accident in Tokaimura, a farmer continues his work in the shadow of the JCO uranium processing plant.
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