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9 Mai 2014
May 9, 2014
Waste storage briefings planned outside Fukushima
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/english/news/20140509_14.html
The environment ministry is planning to hold briefing sessions outside Fukushima Prefecture on planned interim facilities to store waste materials from the ongoing decontamination work in the prefecture.
Environment Minister Nobuteru Ishihara said on Friday that briefings are planned later this month for the local communities Okuma and Futaba towns near the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. The central government has asked the municipalities to host storage facilities. Ishihara said he will soon be able to announce the briefing sites and other details.
The municipal assemblies of the two towns agreed earlier this month to allow the government to brief residents on the proposed facilities.
Ishihara said that, in response to the municipal governments' request, the ministry is working to hold briefings at locations closer to where many evacuees are currently living.
He said it would be a great inconvenience for many evacuees living in Tokyo and elsewhere if they had to return to Fukushima Prefecture to attend the sessions.
May 9, 2014 - Updated 03:09 UTC
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