Test burial pit for radioactive waste opened to press

Test burial pit for radioactive waste opened to press

ASAHIKAWA, Japan - The Japan Atomic Energy Agency's Horonobe Underground Research Center opens to the press an experimental pit for the burial of highly radioactive waste in Horonobe, Hokkaido, northern Japan, on June 16, 2014.

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