Two Hokkaido villages at the heart of race to host nuclear waste
The move has split communities between those seeking investment to stop their towns from dying, and those haunted by the 2011 Fukushima disaster, who are determined to stop the project.
Surveys to identify nuclear waste disposal site begin in Hokkaido
On Friday, the municipal assembly for Suttsu voted down a proposal by locals for a referendum to be held on the town's application for the survey.
Hokkaido municipalities gamble on a nuclear future, but at what cost?
Nuclear waste site survey applications reflect muddled official policy about what to do with the country's spent nuclear fuel
Controversy over bids to host nuclear waste highlights disposal issue
Two municipalities in Hokkaido have applied to the first stage of the process to build final disposal sites for nuclear waste, but the moves have prompted opposition.
Municipalities that undergo the preliminary research can receive up to ¥2 billion in state subsidies over two years.
Hokkaido municipalities to launch nuclear waste disposal site survey
The government is seeking suitable places to store the waste, which must be encased in concrete 300 meters below ground.
A Hokkaido village assembly Friday voted to apply for a first-stage survey to choose a municipality hosting a planned final disposal site for high-level radioactive waste from nuclear power plants. The Kamoenai assembly adopted a petition from a local chamber of commerce asking the village ...
Second site in Hokkaido considers hosting nuclear waste dump
"The population is declining and industry deteriorating," said the head of the local chamber of commerce. "We want to invite the disposal facility to create more jobs."
Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda on Dec. 16 declared that the stricken reactors at Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant have entered the state of "cold shutdown" and that it has been confirmed that the nuclear crisis has "been resolved"(Shusoku ni ...
Japan's longest postwar economic expansion, which started in February 2002, appears headed toward a critical stage. The Bank of Japan's Tankan survey shows that business sentiment among companies has deteriorated because of the yen's steep rise against the dollar, stock price declines and high ...
