Radioactive waste returned to Japan

Radioactive waste returned to Japan

ROKKASHO VILLAGE, Japan - Trucks transport metal containers holding high-level radioactive vitrified waste to a storage facility of Japan Nuclear Fuel Ltd. in the village of Rokkasho, Aomori Prefecture, on the northern tip of Honshu, on Sept. 15, 2011. The radioactive waste was returned to Japan after processing in Britain, in the course of reprocessing spent nuclear fuel at Japanese reactors.

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