Two Fukushima Towns Agree to Interim Nuclear Waste Storage Facilities

摘要

Fukushima Gov Yuhei Sato said that Okuma and Futaba towns will accept interim nuclear waste storage facilities as planned, although a third designated site-at Naraha town-rejected the proposal last month. In December, Environment Minister Nobuteru Ishiara and Reconstruction Minister Takumi Nemoto met with the mayors of Naraha, Futaba and Okuma, as well as Sato, to seek their support for the government's plan to build storage facilities for thousands of tons of soil contaminated with radiation and other nuclear waste from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant disaster.