The governmental Nuclear Safety Commission concluded Monday that there are no safety problems at the suspended nuclear spent-fuel reprocessing plant at Tokai village, Ibaraki Prefecture (Japan) paving the way for the plant to resume operations. With the conclusion, the state-run Japan Nuclear Cycle Development Institute, the plant operator, cleared all governmental procedures to resume operation of the plant, which had been suspended in the wake of the March 1997 fire and explosion of its bituminization facility, the nation's worst nuclear accident.