Japan and Britain agreed Tuesday on having tainted plutonium fuel manufactured by British Nuclear Fuels Corp. returned to Britain, Japanese officials said.
Natural Resources and Energy Agency chief Hirobumi Kawano and Anna Walker, the Energy Bureau chief of Britain's Department of Trade and Industry, reached the agreement in their final talks at the agency's office.
BNFL and Kansai Electric Power Co., which operates the Takahama nuclear power plant in Fukui Prefecture where the BNFL-produced mixed uranium-plutonium oxide fuel was supposed to be used, are also discussing ways to resolve compensation and other issues involving the data falsification scandal, according to the officials.