Although investigations of the accident have already been carried out and their findings are. At a chemical processing facility in the conversion test building of jco in tokaimura ibaraki prefecture japan on 30 september 1999 at 10 35 local time 01 35 gmt in order to make the lessons adequately shared and fully utilized. On september 30th 1999 workers at the.
At approximately 10 35 a m. 1 tokaimura criticality accident. It was the tokaimura criticality accident of 1999 not the dropping of atomic bombs on hiroshima and nagasaki that led to more than 200 000 japanese deaths that prompted japan to question its long lasting relationship with nuclear energy.
One with an annual capacity of 220 tons. The installation consists of three auxiliary uranium conversion buildings. The nuclear accident of the installation took place on september 30 1999 in the nuclear plant conversion building.
It is currently owned by the company jco. The uranium fuel treatment facility is located in tokaimura japan 120km northeast of tokyo in the ibaraki preface. It was not part of the electricity production fuel cycle nor was it a routine manufacturing operation where operators might be assumed to know their jobs.
Jco a subsidiary of sumitomo metal mining co. The 1999 tokai mura accident was in a very small fuel preparation plant operated by japan nuclear fuel conversion co. It served as a fuel conversion company and producer of nuclear reactor fuel rods until 1999.
The tokaimura nuclear plant located in tokai ibaraki prefecture japan was founded in 1966.
