On 28 January 2026, Japan Nuclear Fuel Limited (JNFL) published a provisional five-year operation plan for the Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant and the MOX Fuel Fabrication Plant. The document confirms the previous plan, published in December 2024, which followed the announcement of a delay in bringing the Rokkasho plant into operation made in August 2024.

The current plan assumes that the plant will extract its first 0.6 MT of plutonium by reprocessing 70 MT of fuel in the second half of FY2027. The plant is expected to reach the capacity of 400 MT of fuel a year (3.2 MT of plutonium) in FY2030.

The MOX fuel fabrication plant is projected to produce the first fuel (containing 2.0 MT of plutonium), in FY2030.