The Liberal Democratic Party plans to propose that public funds be used to build and manage "temporary" storage facilities in Fukushima Prefecture for radioactive rubbish tainted by the nuclear disaster, party sources said.

The move is aimed at easing pressure on the finances of beleaguered Tokyo Electric Power Co. and persuading residents near the crippled plant to accept the storage sites, the sources said Saturday.

The facilities, scheduled to be built in the towns of Okuma, Futaba and Naraha, will cost several hundred billion yen. They are expected to begin storing soil and other waste in January 2015.