1.   The electricity utilities had decided to use cheaper reprocessing facilities in France and the UK.

2.   And, Slocombe said, improvements in reprocessing facilities that are to be closed would have resulted in production of a dozen nuclear bombs a year.

3.   The used nuclear fuel from the Shika nuclear power plant on the west coast of Japan is sent to reprocessing facilities in Britain and France.

4.   The official said a fire broke out Tuesday morning at a nuclear fuel reprocessing facility of Power Reactor and Nuclear Fuel Development Corp. at Tokai, Ibaraki prefecture.