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Japan Nears Request for Nuclear Waste Survey in Hitachiomiya

From NHK · () Japanese

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  • Japan’s Economy Ministry is nearing a request to Hitachiomiya, Ibaraki Prefecture, to conduct the first-stage literature survey for a nuclear waste disposal site.
  • The survey concerns the selection of a permanent repository for high-level radioactive waste.

Japan’s Economy Ministry is making final arrangements to ask Hitachiomiya in Ibaraki Prefecture to host a literature survey related to the permanent disposal of high-level radioactive waste.

The survey would represent the first stage in selecting a final disposal site for what is commonly called nuclear waste. The ministry is expected to make the request soon.

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