SeapixOnline- Research & Survey Vessels - 1 of 1 MIRAI (1997/8687grt/3419dwt/IMO 6919423, ex-MUTSU) - a Japanese oceanographic research vessel owned and operated by JAMSTEC (Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology. Prior to her conversion in 1995, she was the nuclear powered ship MUTSU. She is currently deployed in surveying subtropic and subarctic waters of the Indian, Pacific and Arctic Oceans.
As MUTSU she was constructed for the Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute, the 8240 ton Mutsu was launched in 1970 and her nuclear fuel loaded in 1972. She was Japan's first and only nuclear-powered ship.
In 1974, the ship suffered a minor radiation leak which saw the ship blockaded for some weeks by fishermen, preventing her from returning to her home port of Sasebo.
Mutsu never carried commercial cargo. She was used only for nuclear propulsion tests and following modifications to her reactor and a subsequent overhaul she completed her initial objective of covering a distance of 82000kms in testing and was finally decommissioned in 1992. (Ref: Wikipedia)
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