City Near Tokyo OKs Survey for Possible Selection as Nuclear Waste Site
Mayor Sadayuki Suzuki approved the first stage of a roughly 20-year process that could bring 2 billion yen in subsidies, officials said.
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Regarding the selection of a disposal site for high-level radioactive waste (nuclear waste) from nuclear power plants, Mayor Sadayuki Suzuki of Hitachiomiya City, Ibaraki Prefecture, has announced that he will accept a request from the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) for a literature survey. METI is proactively requesting the survey in Tokyo…
City in Ibaraki agrees to nuclear waste disposal survey
The mayor of Hitachiomiya City, Ibaraki Prefecture, north of Tokyo, says he will accept the central government's request to conduct the initial phase of a survey to select a final disposal site for high-level radioactive waste generated by nuclear power plants.
(Tokyo=Yonhap News) Correspondent Lee Do-yeon = The Japanese government's literature survey, the first stage of the procedure requested to select a final disposal site for high-level radioactive waste, in Hita, Ibaraki Prefecture...
City near Tokyo OKs survey for possible selection as nuclear waste site
The mayor of a city in Ibaraki Prefecture, near Tokyo, said Wednesday it will accept a preliminary survey that the industry ministry wants to conduct on its suitability as a potential disposal site for highly radioactive waste.
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