Hokkaido town applies for nuclear waste disposal site survey

Hokkaido town applies for nuclear waste disposal site survey

Haruo Kataoka (L), mayor of Suttsu, a small Hokkaido town in northern Japan, submits a document to Shunsuke Kondo, chief of the quasi-governmental Nuclear Waste Management Organization, in Tokyo on Oct. 9, 2020, applying for a land assessment to be undertaken. The assessment is a part of the process for selecting a municipality to host a final disposal site for high-level radioactive waste from nuclear power plants.

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