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12 Décembre 2013
December 11, 2013
Govt. to acquire land for radioactive waste
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/english/news/20131211_39.html
Japan's Environment Ministry has decided to acquire land to build intermediate storage facilities for radioactive waste in Fukushima Prefecture.
The facilities are designed to hold radioactive soil and debris collected during decontamination work for up to 30 years.
The ministry hopes to start bringing waste to the facilities in January 2015.
It plans to acquire a total of 18 square kilometers in Futaba, Okuma and Naraha. The 3 towns are located near the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.
The ministry estimates that the project will cost about 10 billion dollars. It will earmark about 1 billion dollars in its budget for the next fiscal year.
Environment Minister Nobuteru Ishihara and Reconstruction Minister Takumi Nemoto will visit Fukushima on Saturday to ask the 3 towns and the prefecture to accept the facilities.
However, officials of the 3 towns insist that they have agreed only to a feasibility study for the sites, not to the hosting plan itself.
Dec. 11, 2013 - Updated 10:15 UTC